German (Stuttgart, Germany 1889 - 1955 Stuttgart, Germany)
Head, 1920
Original Language Title: Kopf
Painting
German
, 20th century
Oil, graphite, and plaster on canvas
40.3 x 30.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 in.)
framed: 59.4 x 49.4 x 5 cm (23 3/8 x 19 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
framed: 59.4 x 49.4 x 5 cm (23 3/8 x 19 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of DaimlerChrysler in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
, 2003.125
Busch-Reisinger Museum
, Marks
inscription: stretcher verso t.l., black ink over graphite: G. SCHLEICHER // STUTTGART - N // HERM.KURZSTR.3
inscription: stretcher verso t.r., black ink: [first line of inscription illegible] // "KOPF 1920 // VERZEICHNISNR.149
inscription: stretcher verso l.c., blue ink: [?]SACH DER // [BA]UMEISTER - // [AU]SSTELLUNG // [?]0. JAHRE" //[?]UCK ERH. // 27.2.70 // [?] Herrn // R. Geissler // [?] von // ...OF BEYE // G.S. [left side of insciption covered by frame]
label: stretcher verso t.r., black ink: [incribed in black ink:] SAMMLUNG // [stamped in black ink:] Gustav Schleicher // Stuttgart N // Hermann-Kurz-Str. [right side of label covered by frame]
Provenance
Gustav Schleicher, Stuttgart. [Sotheby's Deutschland, Munich, "Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts," 27 November 1992, lot 75], sold. [Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich]. Private collection, Hamburg, consigned; [Villa Grisebach, Berlin, "Auction No. 43: Selected Works," 26 May 1995, lot 60], sold; to DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart, 1995, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2003.
Bibliography
Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister: Life and Work, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), p. 266, no. 149
Peter Beye and Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister: Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany, 2002), p. 114, no. 256
Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 127
Peter Beye and Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister: Werkkatalog der Gemälde II, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany, 2002), p. 114, no. 256
Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 127
Exhibition History
Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013