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Artist or Maker: Hannah Hoch (1889-1979)

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Description: Mechanischer Garten
signed with initials and dated 'H.H 1920' (lower center)
gouache, watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
28 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (73 x 47 cm.)
Painted in 1920

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Provenance: Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (until 1961).
Acquired by the late owner, by 1969.

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Exhibited: Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Hannah Höch, May-June 1961, no. 64.
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The H. Marc Moyens Collection: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, December 1969-January 1970, no. 29.
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Fünfzehnte europäische Kunstausstellung in Berlin (West): Tendenzen der Zwänziger Jahre, August-October 1977, no. 3/673 (illustrated, p. 3/265).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, October 1993-January 1994, no. 88 (illustrated, p. 48, no. 57).
Des Moines Art Center and New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Three Artists of the Weimar Era: Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Jeanne Mammen, April-November 1994 (illustrated, p. 30, pl. 4).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, October 2005-May 2006.

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Notes: Property from the Estate of H. Marc Moyens