Schwarz + Weisz im Kreisel
August Lange-Brock
(German, 1891–1979)
probably 1920s
Medium/TechniqueAlbum of collages (black, white, and green paper, and gold foil, with black ink and white gouache) on thirteen double-sided boards, in decorated portfolio cover
DimensionsSheet (each): 67.7 x 47.9 cm (26 5/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Overall (closed portfolio): 70 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm (27 9/16 x 19 7/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Overall (closed portfolio): 70 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm (27 9/16 x 19 7/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit LineVirginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
Accession number2016.8
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ProvenanceJanuary 14, 2012, anonymous sale, Hauff und Auvermann, Berlin, lot 514. October 15, 2013, anonymous sale (Auction 95), Jeschke van Vliet Auctions, Berlin, lot 643, to F. A. Bernett Books, Boston; 2016, sold by F. A. Bernett Books to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 2016)
![It is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (Es herano y a la luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan / al tiento)
[Three Figures Seated at an Open Window]
Double-sided drawing in Album B (Madrid Sketchbook) No. 85;, on verso B 86 :"Buen Sacerdote..." (Good Priest....)](/internal/media/dispatcher/1029460/thumbnail)
Raphael Soyer
