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Female head

Maker

(artist)
1890-1967

Title

Female head

Date of Production

(circa) 1925

Medium

red chalk on wove paper, in Seilern's mount

Dimensions

Height: 41.6 cm
Width: 42.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.278

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

purchased from the artist by Count Antoine Seilern, Vienna then London (1901-1978), sometime between 1932-1935; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 278
pl. CXIII
dated c. 1925

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Stamp: Verso: upper right, stamped in black but smudged: a hexagon containing a circle, with words around the edges and in the centre, all in Cyrllic. Mount (Seilern’s), Verso: lower left, stamped in blue: coat of arms, encircled by words: “Vom Bundesdenkmalamt zum Ausfuhr freigegeben”.

Inscription: Mount (Seilern’s), Verso of back cover: lower right, graphite: “Nr. 6”.

Collector's mark: none.

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