Sidonie Springer (Czech-German, 1878-1937)

"Woman with Downcast Gaze"

1919

pencil and crayon on paper

in pencil signed lower right "Sidonie Springer" and dated "1919"

This drawing is a study for Plate 6, "Du Licht in dunkler Erdennacht" ["Your Light in Dark Earthly Night"], of Springer's main graphic work, the print portfolio An meine Mutter [To My Mother] (Berlin: Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung klassischer Kunst, 1921).