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Dying Old Maid (Sterbendes altes Fräulein) from The Canoness and Death

Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938)
Author Alfred Döblin (German, 1878-1957)
Date[1913]
DimensionsPortfolio: H: 11 in. (280 mm); W: 8 3/4 in. (223 mm); Depth: 1/16 in. (2 mm).
Leaf: H: 9 15/16 in. (252 mm); W: 8 1/8 in. (206 mm).
Image: H: 9 15/16 in. (253 mm); W: 8 1/4 in. (210 mm).
MediumPrint on ivory laid paper
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.608E
Not on View
Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 141, repr.

cf., Lang, Lothar, Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907--1927, New York, Boston, 1976, no. 171, p. 223, reprs. pp. 19, 118--119

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 104.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 34

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