Circus Artiste, Koln
Artist
August Sander
(German, 1876 - 1964)
Printer
Gunther Sander
(German, 1907 - 1987)
Date1926; printed 1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 8 1/8 inches (26.67 × 20.64 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/8 inches (27.46 × 20.64 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/8 inches (27.46 × 20.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2940
SignedOn image recto, lower left corner, circular blind stamp: "AUG. SANDER KӦLN LINDENTHAL";
Signed and dated on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "1981 [Gunther Sander, artist's son]"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "VI/37"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortriat of a woman wearing harem pants with an ornate waist line and a fringed bra under an open decorative robe. She is leaning against a circus wagon.Exhibition HistoryNew Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 - May 1, 1983.
Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no cat.
Rotation 15. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 19, 2013 – January 5, 2014, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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2015.67.29
