Heinz Hoffmeister, Sitting female nude half-naked woman, dressed only in a fur coat, with her gaze turned to the side, etching on Japanese paper with delicate plate tone, circa 1920, signed in lead on the right below the image "Heinz Hoffmeister", plate dimensions ca. 26,3 x 20,5 cm, sheet dimensions ca. 33,5 x 25,5 cm. Artist info: German painter, graphic artist, exlibris artist and illustrator (1896 Leipzig to 1930 ibid.), studied at the Academy of Graphics and Book Arts in Leipzig, member of the German Artists' Association Weimar, active in Leipzig, source: Vollmer and Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon".

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