MAX KAUS (1891-1977)

Rückenakt vor Spiegel

Details

MAX KAUS (1891-1977)
Rückenakt vor Spiegel
lithograph, 1922, on wove paper, a good, black impression of this rare print, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed '1-10. 3.Hdr', with margins, several tears in the margins, some extending into the subject, losses and other defects in the margins, laid, framed
L. 22¾ x 16½in. (57.5 x 41.6cm.) S. 25 7/8 x 19¾in. (65.8 x 50.3cm.)

Literature

Hamburg, Altonaer Museum, Max Kaus. Graphik. Lithographien, Holzschnitte, Radierungen, October 1973, no. 69

Lot Essay

Kaus'lithographic output is limited to the early 1920s. An accident with a printing stone in 1925 made handprinting impossible for him.

The current lithograph probably represents the artist's partner Gertrud whom he was to marry in 1923.

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