About the Artwork
Half-length Female Nude Standing Before a Mirror
ca.1911
August Macke
1887-1914
German
Unknown
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 5 1/4 inches (11.7 × 13.3 cm) Framed: 10 1/8 × 11 1/4 × 3/4 inches (25.7 × 28.6 × 1.9 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.311
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Provenance
August Macke Estate [purple arist's estate stamp [L. Suppl. 1775b] on verso at lower right] (Bonn, Germany)
1963, Leonard Hutton Galleries (New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 152 (ill.).
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 136, no. 77 (ill.).
Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 68 (pl. 69).
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August Macke, Half-length Female Nude Standing Before a Mirror, ca.1911, watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.311.
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