About the Artwork
Woman
1920
Erich Heckel
1883 - 1970
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (80 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 39 5/8 × 35 5/8 × 2 1/4 inches (100.6 × 90.5 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
21.205
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Erich Heckel 20 Signed and dated, verso: 1920 Erich Heckel Signed and dated, on stretcher: Erich Heckel frau 1920
Provenance
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Portraiture of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Exh. cat., Munson Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, New York, 1957, no. 21.
Vogt, Paul. Erick Heckel. Recklinghausen, Germany, 1965, no. 1920.3 (ill.).
Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 227 (ill.).
Uhr, Horst. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 82 (ill.).
"Erich Heckel's Woman (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)." Bulletin of the DIA 83, 1-4 (2009): pp. 58-63 (ill.).
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Erich Heckel, Woman, 1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.205.
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