Bathing Couple, 1910

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut printed in black, blue, green, and red on blotting paper

Dimensions

image: 20.5 x 30.5 cm (8 1/16 x 12 in.)

sheet: 25 x 35.4 cm (9 13/16 x 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 158, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.135

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right by later hand (Erna Kirchner, see Dube v.1, p.9) in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom left verso by later hand in brown ink: KFH 23; lower right verso by later hand in blue pencil: 127

Provenance

Unverkäuflich (shaved off) E.L. Kirchner (described in L.1570a-d). (Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, June 12, 1984, lot 368); (via Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Lempertz, Kunsthaus
Wittrock, Wolfgang

Exhibition History

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, no. (W) 158, ii/ii