Watercolor and pencil on paper. Monogrammed in the lower right (in ligature). 18 x 12.8 cm. , the full sheet.
[AR/CH].
- Sketch from the Paris/Brussels period. - Formerly part of the Mammen Collection of Marga Döpping, co-author of the 1997 catalogue raisonné. - As a keen observer, the Berlin artist did not shy away from any milieu or experience, portraying both poverty and glamorous contemporaries, Berlin bohemians, frivolous nightlife and characters living on the fringes of society. - She became particularly well known for her depictions of the “New Woman,” a new type of self-confident woman in Weimar society: Mammen drew tomboyish garçonnes and emancipated young women, sometimes as exaggerated caricatures, sometimes as stereotypical female types, and sometimes in intimate, sometimes eroticized settings. - Most recently, Mammen's artistic work was honored in major retrospectives at the Schirn Kunsthalle (2017) and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018). - Works by the artist can be found in the collections of renowned international museums, including the Berlin State Museums, the British Museum in London, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge (MA), and the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.