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Sunflowers

Sunflowers, 1920

  • Erich Heckel, German, 1883 - 1970

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 30 1/2 × 27 3/4 inches (77.5 × 70.5 cm)
  • 34 9/16 × 30 13/16 × 2 5/8 inches (87.8 × 78.3 × 6.7 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.209

Department

European Modern Art to 1950

  • Expressionist
  • Oil
  • Canvas
  • Flowers (plants)
  • Still life
  • Painting (visual work)
  • Germany

Details

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Vogt, Paul. Erick Heckel. Recklinghausen, Germany, 1965, no. 1920.18 (ill.).

Erich Heckel, Sunflowers, 1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.209.

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