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Seven Woodcuts on War: The Widow II
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
1921
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, proof for the first state with hand indications of future work in white gouache on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.2 × 44.5 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
Block: 30.2 × 40 cm (11 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Block: 30.2 × 40 cm (11 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number61.28
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Klipstein 181: Knesebeck 178, proof before I
Signed
signed, recto lower right in graphite: Käthe Kollwitz
InscriptionsIn graphite l.l.: 1. Zust Handdruck ; l.r.: Käthe Kollwitz
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1961, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 11, 1961)