Anita Rée  (Hamburg 1885 - 1933 Kampen, Sylt)

"Portrait of a Young Woman" ("Mädchenkopf")

circa 1915

pencil and black chalk on paper

28,6 x 22 cm

provenance: Carl Georg Heise (1890-1979), art historian; director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1945-1955; he was a champion of German classical modernism.  See Hildegard and Carl George Heise, eds., Anita Rée (1885 Hanburg 1933, Ein Gedenkbuch von ihren Freunden (Hamburg: Hans Christians Verlag, 1968).