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Hugo Biallowons

(German, 1880–1938)
1916
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut, unfinished working proof with corrections in orange-red crayon on pale gray wove paper
DimensionsBlock: 46 x 35.2 cm (18 1/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 50.7 x 38 cm (19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Ruth Johnstone Wales in memory of Audrey Claire Greiner Model 1928-1963
Accession number1991.617
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in block, l.l.: "hugo B"; estate stamp in purple ink, verso, l.l.: "Nachlass E. L. Kirchner" (Lugt 1570b), inscribed in black ink "H 582 I"
ProvenancePurchased in Germany in the 1950s; by inheritance to Ruth Johnstone Wales, Lincoln, MA; given to MFA, 25 September 1991
André Lhote
about 1924
Que biene el Coco. (The bogeyman is coming); Plate 3 bound into "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
El de la royona (Nanny's boy); Plate 4 bound into "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Qual la descañonan! (Oh how they pluck out her quills); Plate 21 bound into "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Three Shadows in a Landscape
William Kentridge
2003
Popular Parasol (Ryûkô higasa)
Artist unknown, Japanese
1835 (Tenpô 6)
Self-Portrait with Erna
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1922
Schlemihl's Encounter with the Shadow
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1915