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Old Woman Mending at the Window
Max Liebermann. Old Woman Mending at the Window, 1881. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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Old Woman Mending at the Window

by Max Liebermann

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, upper right corner, in pen and black ink: M. Liebermann; lower right edge, in graphite, 1011

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, before 2001 [a letter from Margreet Nouwen to Eva-Maria Worthington of May 5, 2002 in curatorial file and Hamburg 2001]. Galerie Franke, Munich [letter mentioned above]. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich [letter]. Sold by Hauswedell and Nolte, Hamburg, June 9, 2001, lot 1472. Sold by Eva-Marie Worthington, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 2002.

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection", October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 150-151, 227-228, cat. 64 (ill.), cat by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin

Publications

René Menard, "Le Salon de 1881," L’Art Revue hebdomadaire illustrée, VII (1881), p. 304 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist
Max Liebermann / German, 1847-1935
Date
1881
Medium
Pen and black ink over graphite and blue crayon on cream laid paper
Dimensions
31.1 × 25.6 cm (12 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Type
Drawing
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Place
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Celia and David Hilliard Endowment
Accession no.
2002.102

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