About the Artwork
Men in Silk Hats
1935
Christian Rohlfs
1849-1938
German
Unknown
Water-based pigments on heavy wove paper
Sheet: 31 1/8 × 22 1/8 inches (79.1 × 56.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Walter F. Haass in memory of Reverend W. F. Haass
36.18
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Markings
Signed and dated, with brown crayon, lower right: CR 35
Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: Nr. 3 Manner im Zylinder Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, verso: 2 [in circle] and A Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: Rohlfs Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on paper glued to lower center of verso: Chr. Rohlfs [underscored] | Hagen, Hochstr. 73 | or: Ascona, Casa Margot | Switzerland
Stamp, purple customs stamp, on label glued to lower center of verso: ZOLL | II-29 [in circle] Watermark: P M FABRIANO
Provenance
1935-1936, the artist
1936, Lillian Henkel Haass and Walter F. Haass [purchased directly from the artist for the DIA by dealer Dr. Wilhelm Abegg from the exhibition Watercolors by Christian Rohlfs](Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1936-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Newberry, John S. Jr. "Modern German Watercolors." Bulletin of the DIA 16, 3 (1936): pp. 37-41.
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 224-225, no. 124 (ill.).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 198 (ill.).
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Christian Rohlfs, Men in Silk Hats, 1935, water-based pigments on heavy wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Walter F. Haass in memory of Reverend W. F. Haass, 36.18.
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