Two Bathers near the Woods

1910/1911

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.1 × 34.1 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E.L. Kirchner estate, Basel (Lugt 1570b). (Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 17, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • Herbstausstellung: Zeichnungen, Graphik, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Gouachen, Kleinplastic. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1924, no. 295.

1964

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Galatea Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 1964, no. 18.

  • E. L. Kirchner - Brücke. Gallerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, 1964, pp. 24-25, no. 9 (repro).

1972

  • German Expressionist Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculpture. Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 1972, 39, no. 37 (repro.)

1988

  • German Expressionist Graphics, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1988.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Royal Academy of Art, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, pp. 10, 249, no. 70 (color)(Washington only).

2006

  • Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth. Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2006 (no cat.).

2014

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

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom right, in graphite: E L Kirchner; on verso, Kirchner estate stamp annotated in pen and black ink: A Dre I Bf 5 (?); in graphite: K3642

Wikidata ID

Q64559845

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