About the Artwork
Sunflowers
1935
Christian Rohlfs
1849-1938
German
Unknown
Watercolor and blue crayon on cream wove paper
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 23 inches (33.3 × 58.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.325
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Markings
Signed and dated, in red paint, lower right: C R 35
Inscribed, in margin, upper left: No 14. Sonnenblumen Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: Nr-14 Rohlfs
Watermark, in left edge of paper: P. M. Fabriano Sticker, in margin, lower right, in brown ink: Chr. Rohlfs, Hochste. 73 | Germany | or Ascona, Casa Margot | Switzerland Stamp, purple stamp: Zoll II-29 [with cross below, the whole encircled]
Provenance
Dr. Wilhelm Abegg. 1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1977, p. 208, no. 280.
Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 228-229, no. 126 (ill.).
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Christian Rohlfs, Sunflowers, 1935, watercolor and blue crayon on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.325.
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