Harmonica Player, 1919

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in red and deep violet on blotting paper

Dimensions

image: 32.5 x 27.4 cm (12 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

sheet: 46.5 x 37.8 cm (18 5/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 341, State b

Accession Number

1990.66.1

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in graphite: Sch II 389 II; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: [?]145b / 1084; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 237

Provenance

Kirchner estate (L.Supp.1570b annotated L 389 II). (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 4, 1977, lot 762); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C., (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Hauswedell & Nolte
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003, no. 173.

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.

1985: NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 17, repro. p.23.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: no. 173.