Seated Girl

1913/1914

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Artist C. Valsuani, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Seated Girl

Artwork Date 1913/1914

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

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 11 × 17 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (27.9 × 44.8 × 14 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. 70.216

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Signed Signed on base at center back: W. Lehmbruck.

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Marks Stamped on base at back left: Cire/ C. Valsuani/ Perdue.

Provenance

Duisburg, Stadtisches Museum (?)

Berlin, Buchholz Gallery, Berlin, 1936

New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1937 (?)

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, Colleciton Robert H. Tannahill

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Published References

Duisberger Museumsverein, DAS WERK WILHELM LEHMBRUCK; IM BESITZE DES DUSIBRUG MUSEUMVEREINS ODER ALS LEIHGABE VON FRAU PRO. ANITA LEHMBRUCK (Duisburg, 192-), cat. no. 47

New York, Buchholz Gallery, LEHMBRUCK, MODIGLIANI, 2 -30 November 1937, cat. no. 47.

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 121, 130, 144 (ill.).

Ocvirk, O. G., et. al., ART FUNDAMENTALS: THEORY AND PRACTICE, Dubuque: W. C. Brown and Co., 1975 (ill fig 194).

Uhr, H., MASTERPIECES OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, NY: Hudson Hills Press in association with the DIA, 1982, p 146 (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), pp. 254-256, cat. no. 63Ba3, pl. 285 (p. 256)

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