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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in red and deep violet on blotting paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.5 x 27.4 cm (12 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.5 x 37.8 cm (18 5/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.66.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 341, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kirchner estate (L.Supp.1570b annotated L 389 II). (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 4, 1977, lot 762); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C., (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003, no. 173.

2014

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

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 17, repro. p.23.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: no. 173.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: Sch II 389 II; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: [?]145b / 1084; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 237

Wikidata ID

Q74885173

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