About the Artwork
Evening by the Sea
1919
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884-1976
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 34 × 39 3/4 inches (86.4 × 101 cm) Framed: 38 3/4 × 44 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (98.4 × 112.4 × 4.1 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Dr. William R. Valentiner
63.135
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Markings
Signed, lower right: S.Rottluff
Inscribed, on reverse: schmidt=rottluff "abend am Meer' (207)
Label, from Berlin Sesession 1920
Provenance
1963-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Myers, B.S., ed. Art and Civilization. London, 1931, p. 368, no. 591.
Valentiner Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., J.L. Hudson Co. Detroit, 1964, no. 39.
The Modern Art Society: The Center's Early Years 1939-1954. Exh. cat., Contemporary Arts Center. Cincinnati, 1979, p. 73 (ill.).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 204 (ill.).
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Evening by the Sea, 1919, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Dr. William R. Valentiner, 63.135.
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