Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1921

  • Max Kaus, German, 1891-1977

Watercolor, gouache or pastel and graphite on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 16 5/8 × 20 1/2 inches (42.2 × 52.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

67.132

Signed and dated, lower left: MKaus 21

by 1936, acquired by Rudolph M. Riefstahl (Perrysburg, Ohio, USA)

Riefstahl family (Perrysburg, Ohio, USA)

1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Ninth Exhibition: Watercolors of German Painters. Riefstahl Collection. Exh. cat., Westerman Gallery. New York, 1936, no. 21 (ill.). Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, cat. no. 54, p. 106 (ill.).

Max Kaus, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1921, watercolor, gouache or pastel and graphite on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 67.132.