About the Artwork
Two Heads
1926
Christian Rohlfs
1849-1938
German
Unknown
Water-based pigments on wove paper
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (50.2 × 36.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Walter F. Haass in memory of Reverend Charles W. F. Haass
36.16
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: C R 26
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on paper glued to center of sheet, verso: Chr. Rolfs. Hagen, Hochstr. 73 | Germany | or: Ascona, Casa Margot | Switzerland Inscribed, in pencil, on paper label: 22
Provenance
1926-1936, 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. 218-219, no. 121 (ill.).
Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 421 (ill.).
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Christian Rohlfs, Two Heads, 1926, water-based pigments on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Walter F. Haass in memory of Reverend Charles W. F. Haass, 36.16.
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