Marigolds (a.k.a. Sunny Messengers)

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1915  

color woodcut, with three wood blocks 

11 x 9 7/8" image 

pencil, within image in lower right 

ten known impressions 

Hand-in-Heart chop between signature; titled "Marigolds" within image in pencil 

Chamberlain 34; Baumann 8 

cream Zanders Bergisch Gladbach laid 

published 

artist 

AB4014 

$27,000.00 

This version of "Marigolds" is also known as "Sunny Messengers." This was Baumann's first floral color woodcut and the earliest impressions were printed on laid Japan paper. Baumann created numerous gouache studies of florals and several were in the octagon format as found here.