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Description: Signed S Rotluff (lower left)

Watercolor on paper

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Dimensions: 19 3/4 by 27in.

50.2 by 68.6cm

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Provenance: Dr. G. Wilhelm R. Valentiner (acquired directly from the artist)
Brigitta Valentiner-Bertoia (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Exhibited: Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1959, no. 140
Olympia Galleries, Ltd., Philadelphia and Atlanta

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Notes: Dr. Valentiner, born in Germany, served as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1908 and later as director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Detroit Institute of Art among others. Dr. Valentiner wrote extensively, including a monograph Schmidt-Rotluff published in 1920. A 1923 woodcut, by the artist, Portrait of Wilhelm R. Valentiner, II, is currently in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Art.