Red Deer
Artist
Franz Marc
(German, 1880 - 1916)
Dateearly 20th century
MediumWatercolor and black chalk on paper
DimensionsSheet: 16 3/8 × 12 13/16 inches (41.59 × 32.54 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (64.14 × 56.52 × 5.72 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (64.14 × 56.52 × 5.72 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number55-2
Signedl.r. corner: "F. Marc"
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DescriptionIn center, two orange deer reclining, one in front of the other. Ground plane divided into triangles washed with green, yellow, orange, blue, and pink. Background plane divided into curved segments, upright and diagonal treelike planes washed in greens, pinks, and blues. Trifoliate green plant form, lower left. Charcoal outlines.ProvenancePossibly with Albert Flechtheim, Berlin, by 1918;
Possibly purchased from Flechtheim by a private collector, Bremen, Germany, by 1918 [1];
With Herbert Tannenbaum Galleries, New York, by 1954-1955;
Purchased from Herbert Tannenbaum Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.
NOTES:
[1] According to Herbert Tannenbaum, in a letter to Patrick Kelleher, Curator, January 17, 1955 (but erroneously dated 1954), NAMA Registration files, Tannenbaum acquired this work “…from a German immigrant, who came to this country from Bremen. He purchased this work during the first World War, in Berlin, from an art dealer, probably Alfred Flechtheim.” The identity of the private collector is currently unknown.
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