About the Artwork
Greek Flute Player
ca. 1933
Gerhard Marcks
1889-1981
German
Unknown
Graphite pencil with stumping on cream wove paper
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 9 1/2 inches (37.8 × 24.1 cm)
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Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.176
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Marcks
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: #1676 Inscribed, lower left corner: v40 Inscribed, center of sheet: 77
Provenance
Buchholz Gallery [gallery label on verso in lower left corner, inv. no. 538] (New York, New York, USA)
John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA)
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Music of Art. Artrain, Inc, 1985. Checklist, no. 45.
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 144-145, no. 85 (ill.).
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Gerhard Marcks, Greek Flute Player, ca. 1933, graphite pencil with stumping on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.176.
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