Head of a Woman

1913/1914

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Artist C. Valsuani, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Head of a Woman

Artwork Date 1913/1914

Makers Wilhelm Lehmbruck (Artist) German, 1881-1919 C. Valsuani (Foundry) Paris

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (39.4 × 26.7 × 16.8 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.215

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Signed Signed on back right: W. Lehmbruck.

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Marks Stamped below signature: Cire/ C Valsuanti/ Perdue.

Provenance

Berlin or Cologne: Galerie Ferninand Moller, ca 1927 (?)

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Inc, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, Collection Robert H.Tannahill,1939.

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Published References

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Inc., LEMBRUCK, 21 February - 11 March 1939, cat no 11.

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 123, 130, 143 (ill.).

"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT FREE PRESS, May 20, 1979, p 25 (ill).

Uhr, H., MASTERPIECES OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, NY: Hudson Hills Press in association with the DIA, 1982, p 144 (ill).

DIA Statewide Services Traveling Exhibition, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURE FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, May 27, 1986 - Mar 1, 1987, (ill).

Schubert, Dietrich, WILHELM LEHMBRUCK, CATALOGUE RAISONNE DER SKULPTUREN 1898-1919, (Worms, 2001. p. 266. cat no 67Ba5, pl 314.

THE INFLUENCE OF PARIS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SCULPTURE 1830-1930, Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981, cat no 18, p 25, (ill).

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