Mary Wigman's Dance, 1933

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in black touched with black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 44.5 x 35.6 cm (17 1/2 x 14 in.)

sheet: 53.2 x 41.3 cm (20 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 639, State i/ii

Accession Number

1991.156.8

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in graphite: NL 666 I; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 5229 / K 5598 / K 5598 / C 3540

Provenance

Kirchner Estate (L. Supp. 1570b annotated H Da/Be 5I). (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased October 31, 1979; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Ketterer, Roman Norbert

Exhibition History

1992: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.

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.