Woodcut. Signed and dated. Titled, dated and numbered in bottom margin. On firm wove paper. 36 x 29.4 cm. Sheet: 46,7 x 36,3 cm.
Printed and published by Pan-Presse, Berlin. [KT].
- Expressive, full-page portrait of a woman. - Special detail: the exotic necklace is reminiscent of Schmidt-Rottluff's own jewelry. - A reference to a necklace worn by the friend and patron Rosa Schapire, which consisted of six long, dangling teeth.
LITERATURE: Rosa Schapire, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphisches Werk bis 1923, [Berlin 1924] reprint New York 1987, no. H 131 (illu. i n black and white, plate vol.) Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 368f., SHG no. 612 (illu.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, pp. 68f., SHG no. 124 (illu.).