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Variete

Variete, 1911

  • Fritz Gurlitt, German
  • Erich Heckel, German, 1883 - 1970

Drypoint printed in black ink on japan paper

  • Plate: 5 1/2 × 5 1/8 inches (14 × 13 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 inches (34.9 × 25.4 cm)

Gift of John S. Newberry

47.163

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed in pencil, lower right: Erich Heckel

1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 80 (ill.).

Erich Heckel, Variete, 1911, drypoint printed in black ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 47.163.

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