Name: KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
Brand: Die Carmagnole
Price: 1000.00 GBP
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KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
Die Carmagnole
etching with drypoint, aquatint and open-bite
circa 1901
on wove paper
signed in pencil
a fine impression of the sixth state (of nine), printed in brownish-black
from the first edition (of unknown size), printed by Angerer, Berlin, with his address
published by E.A. Seemann, Berlin, circa 1917
with wide margins
in good condition
Plate 58,5 x 41,2 cm. (23 x 16¹⁄₈ in.)
Sheet 73,2 x 52,2 cm. (28⁷⁄₈ x 20¹⁄₂ in.)

Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 6 December 1997, lot 823 (unsold).
Acquired after the sale; then by descent to the present owners.

A. Klipstein, Käthe Kollwitz - Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes, Bern, 1955, no. 49, pp. 63-64 (another impression ill.).
A. von dem Knesebeck, Käthe Kollwitz - Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, Bern, 2002, no. 51, pp. 176-179 (other impressions ill.)

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March 1999 - October 2000, pp. 51 (ill.) & 99-100.

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Carmagnole was the name of song mocking the King and Queen of France, which became popular during the French Revolution and served as a rallying cry of anti-royalists, usually accompanying an unruly dance in the streets. In this early and important etching of circa 1901, Kollwitz depicted a crowd of women dressed in rags, some with bare shoulders, dancing around a guillotine.
For a large-scale preparatory drawing for the figure of the drummer boy seen in the foreground at left, please see lot 267.