Woman with Dead Child

Woman with Dead Child

Year: 1903

Medium: Etching and sandpaper aquatint

Dimensions: 42.5 × 48.5 cm

$145,000

Perhaps Kollwitz's most anguished image: a mother clutches the lifeless body of her child, her face twisted with primal grief. It was inspired by the death of her own son Peter in Flanders in 1914.

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