Seven Woodcuts on War: The Sacrifice (Child's Head)

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)

about 1922

Medium/Technique Woodcut, proof

Dimensions Sheet: 13.3 x 20.6 cm (5 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis

Accession Number33.607

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Klipstein 177, VIi, proof: Knesebeck 179, IX, a. 2

DescriptionThis is a proof impression of the head alone

Signed signed

InscriptionsIn graphite, u.rl . Kathe Kollwitz; l.l Kinderkopf aus opfer; l.r: 6 [?] Zus... (hand of Klipstein)

Provenance1933, sold by Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore, MD, to the MFA for $40. (Accession Date: October 5, 1933)