About the Artwork
The Sermon on the Mount
1916
Christian Rohlfs
1849-1938
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black ink on wove paper
Image and sheet: 17 1/2 × 16 3/8 inches (44.5 × 41.6 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 1 3/8 inches (73 × 57.8 × 3.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund
31.10
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Markings
Signed, on block, lower left: CR Signed, in black ink, lower right: Chr. Rohlfs.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations and abbreviations]
Provenance
(Ernst Arnold Galerie, Dresden, Germany)
1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 90 (ill.).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 196 (ill.).
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Christian Rohlfs, The Sermon on the Mount, 1916, woodcut printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, 31.10.
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