The Visit

1923

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black on paper printed yellow

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 31 x 26 cm (12 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 41 x 33.5 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.71

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 508, State ii/ii, Variation a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) H 493. (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 13, 1998, lot 673). Unidentified private collection, Germany; (Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, November 29, 2005, lot 163); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 508, ii/ii

Inscriptions

bottom left by later hand in graphite: Sch II 493 Der Besuch / 203559; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: 5371 / K 5740; bottom center by later hand in graphite: 32

Wikidata ID

Q76339113

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