Two Women (Zwei Frauen), 1914

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G25

Medium

lithograph, printed in black and pale orange inks, on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 42 x 32 cm (16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

sheet: 53.8 x 41.9 cm (21 3/16 x 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 259 i/II

Accession Number

2012.92.143

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Handdruck; lower right in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; bottom left by later hand in graphite: R6441

Provenance

Paul Walter (no mark). Peter Dietsch (no mark). [1] (Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 12, 1977; gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] The first two listed owners according to a receipt from the dealer at time of purchase.

Associated Names

Dietsch, Peter
Graphics International
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Walter, Paul F., Mr.

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. (L) 259

2013: Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.