About the Artwork
Kneeling Female Figure
ca. 1930
Georg Kolbe
1877-1947
German
Unknown
Black crayon on cream wove paper
Sheet: 19 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (48.9 × 39.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund
35.57
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Markings
Signed, in black crayon, lower right: GK
Inscribed, in red pencil, lower right: KB 11 Inscribed, in red pencil, center of sheet, verso: 247
Stamp, blue customs stamp, lower right corner, verso: Zollzweigstelle Bahnhof Freidrichstrasse Berlin
Provenance
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 118, no. 63 (ill.).
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Georg Kolbe, Kneeling Female Figure, ca. 1930, black crayon on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 35.57.
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