Colored chalk drawing over India ink. Barely legibly signed in the lower right. On wove paper. 25.8 x 40 cm. , the full sheet. [AW].
- With concise lines, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff depicts his wife Emy reading. - Banned from painting since 1941, he created small-format, colorful masterpieces in the seclusion of rural solitude. - Only a few works from this period have survived; many were destroyed in 1945.
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

Private collection, southern Germany

In good condition. Slightly wavy. The lower edge of the sheet is slightly irregular.