Female Nude Seated

1909

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on oatmeal paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.8 x 19.9 cm (9 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
    image: 25 x 19.9 cm (9 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 34 x 29 cm (13 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.38

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 76, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore); Pasadena Art Museum, purchased 1959; (deaccessioned, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, June 18, 1980, lot 695). [1] Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] According to records housed at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. "Roten C., Baltimore" is listed in the card catalog, but this likely relates to Ferdinand Roten.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, NGA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no.13.

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. (I) 76, i/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom edge by later hand in graphite: Pregnant Nude Sch81 1907/8 128-49 CHN $240- Rare

Wikidata ID

Q76339053

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