Two Figures by the Sea, 1920

Not on View

woodcut in black on wove paper

block: 17.9 x 13.5 cm (7 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

sheet: 25 x 19 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Dube 1965, Vol. (W), no. 326, State B

2006.57.13

Erich Heckel (artist) German, 1883 - 1970

lower right in graphite: Erich Heckel 20.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: MXX

(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (variant of Lugt 4740), purchased March, 1969; gift to NGA, 2006.

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kennedy Galleries

1985: German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, NGA, 1985, no. 37.

1964: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965.