Concentrated Bathing Act | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2003.120
People: Georg Hertting, German (Limbach, Germany born 1882)
Title: Concentrated Bathing Act
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Die konzentrierte Badenummer
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1913
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/77193

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.2 × 25.7 cm (12 11/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
image: 28.9 × 24.2 cm (11 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in charcoal on recto l.l.: G. Kerstins
inscription: recto l.c., graphite: --Die konzentrierte "Badenummer"-- // (gemassigt - naturalistisch - kubistisch)
inscription: verso c., red crayon: Nr. 58 [underlined]
inscription: recto l.r., graphite: 9

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany, sold; to Carol O. Selle, New York, New York, 1978, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Carol O. Selle
Accession Year: 2003
Object Number: 2003.120
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Konzentrierte "Badenummer", Jugend, 34, 1913, p. 996, b/w ill.
Bernd A. Gülker, Die verzerrte Moderne, LIT Verlag (Münster, Germany, 2001), p. 43; p. 178, no. J19; p. 309, ill. no. 37, b/w ill.

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