Art, literature & historyMetamorphose
1947
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color lithograph printed in black, dark grey and light grey, hand-colored with light green, light red, light blue, yellow and ochre watercolor by the artist, on wove cream paper
- Dimensions
- image: 38 × 48 cm (14 15/16 × 18 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 61.6 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.163
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Metamorphose — Willi Baumeister. 1947.
Medium: color lithograph printed in black, dark grey and light grey, hand-colored with light green, light red, light blue, yellow and ochre watercolor by the artist, on wove cream paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 38 × 48 cm (14 15/16 × 18 7/8 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 61.6 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.163. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.