English Step Dancers
1911
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut printed in black, yellow, green, and pink on blotting paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 40.5 x 27.5 cm (15 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
sheet: 54 x 40 cm (21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2012.92.36
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 176, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Botho-Graef Stiftung, Jena (see Dube v.1, p.9; not in Lugt); Kunstverein Jena (not in Lugt), donated 1918; (Karl Buchholz, Berlin, by 1939); [1] (Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York, 1940). (Helen Serger/La Boetie, New York). [2] (Alice Adam, Chicago); [3] (Graphic International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 22, 1978; gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13082 and sold by Buccholz, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.
[2] According to Ruth Kainen in correspondence with Wolfgang Henze January 18, 1993.
[3] According to a handwritten note on the receipt, this print came to Graphics International via Alice Adam.
Associated Names
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) 176, i/ii
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; top left verso by later hand in graphite: No.83; #2805; bottom left by later hand in graphite: FH 127 (Seite 59)
Wikidata ID
Q76339048