Standing Nude

1911

Erich Heckel

Associated Names
Erich Heckel

Artist, German, 1883 - 1970

The image shows a full-body depiction of a person standing in a slightly contrapposto pose with one leg bent at the knee and crossed over the other. The person's arms are raised, with one hand resting on the back of their head and the other bent over it, creating an arch above their head. They have short, dark hair with straight bangs, and their facial features are stylized with prominent eyes and a subtle smile. The person is depicted without clothing, and the image is rendered in a woodcut style with black and tan tones. The background consists of abstract shapes in the same black and tan tones.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut with watercolor

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 52.8 x 19 cm (20 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 58.2 x 42.8 cm (22 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.162.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1965, Vol. (W), no. 234

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 29, 1973; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 160.

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1964

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965.

Inscriptions

in graphite lower right: E Heckel 1911; by later hand bottom right: hi; bottom left: B[7?]30 / Stehender Akt; verso bottom left circled: H9; bottom right: A65279 / D234

Wikidata ID

Q76339033

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