An Elegant Woman with Her Hands Covering Her Eyes

An Elegant Woman with Her Hands Covering Her Eyes by Walter Gramatté

Medium

colored chalks on tracing paper

Dimensions

overall: 33.7 x 25.8 cm (13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1993.11.1

About the Artist

Walter Gramatté

Walter Gramatté, born Walter Eduard Gramatté on January 8, 1897, in Berlin-Wedding to building manager Otto Gramatté and his wife Katharina, emerged as a poignant voice in German Expressionism despite a tragically brief career. The son of modest parents—described variably as a baker in some accounts—Gramatté volunteered for World War I in 1914 but was largely spared frontline duty due to chronic p...

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