Two Nudes in a Forest

1925

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored crayon drawing on white wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    overall: 51 × 37 cm (20 1/16 × 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.37


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E.L. Kirchner estate, Basel (Lugt 1570b). (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 31, 1979; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003 (not in cat.).

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Inscriptions

on verso, in graphite: K5951 / C3425; on verso, E. L. Kirchner estate stamp annotated in pen and black ink: Fs Da / Bf 27

Wikidata ID

Q64559838


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