Two Peasant Heads

1920

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 32 x 25.5 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.5 x 31 cm (16 5/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.719

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 316, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 354. (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased November 1, 2007; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 316, iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; bottom center in graphite: Bergbauern; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K9440; =Sch 354 II

Wikidata ID

Q76557757

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