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Desperate Discussion

A work made of charcoal, with stumping and erasing, with graphite borders on cream wove paper.

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  • A work made of charcoal, with stumping and erasing, with graphite borders on cream wove paper.

Date:

1916

Artist:

Ernst Barlach
German, 1870-1938

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Ernst Barlach

Title

Desperate Discussion

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1916

Medium

Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, with graphite borders on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "E Barlach"

Dimensions

33.7 × 26.2 cm (13 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.710

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