Empty Dishes, 1924

  • Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, German, 1867-1945

Black crayon on buff wove paper

  • Sheet: 19 3/4 × 19 5/8 inches (50.2 × 49.8 cm)

Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

70.307

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: Kathe Kollwitz | 1924

Mark, on verso, lower right: [unidentified purple collector's mark, crossed out with pencil]

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 13 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left margin: Kein Brot Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: Aufnahme 18 x 24 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: 40 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, verso: M.300-

unidentified collector

Galerie St. Etienne (New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Någel, Otto, ed. Kåthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen. Berlin, 1972, pp. 398, nos. 1034, (ill.). Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, cat. no. 67, pp. 124-125 (ill.).

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Empty Dishes, 1924, black crayon on buff wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.307.