Artist name:
Irma Stern
Artist date(s): 1894-1966
Artwork title:
Dumela Morena: Bilder aus Africa von Irma Stern
Description: 1710/1-11: portfolio consisting of a series eleven litho prints in cardboard folder; title on the front: 'Dumela Morena: Bilder aus Afrika (Greetings Sir: Pictures from Africa) von Irma Stern. Verlag Fritz Gurlitt Berlin 1920; and portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, with the sun behind:
1. Portrait of a woman with the sun behind, same image as title page;
2. Child with three geese;
3. Two women, one seated and one standing with pot on her head;
4. Five children dancing in a circle;
5. Two children, one squatting, one standing;
6. Kneeling mother and child;
7. Two figures and an ox;
8. Standing figure and trees;
9. Mother with round container on head, baby on back and holding the hand of a child;
10. Reclining figure and trees;
11. Three figures carrying reeds/twigs on their heads.
Initialled IS bottom left except for 2 and 11 and the cover which is not initialled
All prints signed 'Irma Stern' in pencil bottom right.
Artwork date(s): 1920
Artwork type: IS Works on Paper
Medium: litho print on paper
Measurements: 400X290
Inscription: s,b/r
Accession number: 1710
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