About This Artwork

Wilhelm Lehmbruck
German, 1881-1919

Little Pensive One, 1911

Bronze
20 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 6 in. (52.7 x 14.6 x 15.2 cm)
Signed r. side of base: "Lehmbruck", foundry mark rear of base: Alexis. Rudier / Fondeur. Paris"
Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., 1964.1137

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twelve Sculptors of the Twentieth Century, 1954.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1964–65, p. 29.
Dietrich Schubert, Wilhelm Lehmbruck: Catalogue raisonné der Skulpturen, 1898-1919 (Worms: Werner, 2001), p. 216.

Ownership History

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York, by 1954 [New York 1954]. Given to Art Institute, 1964.