Women Bathing Between White Stones (Badende Frauen Zwischen Weissen Steinen)

1912

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

This is a painting of three nude figures in a stylized landscape setting. The artwork shows three nude figures, one leaning on a large rock formation and two others standing beside a pool of water. The color palette consists of soft oranges for the figures, contrasted with teal water and stark black outlines that define the shapes and contours of the scene. Rock formations and foliage can be seen in the background, which is expressed with minimal detail and a similar color scheme of teal and black. The figures have a simplified, almost geometric appearance, emphasizing form and posture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.4 × 27.6 cm (11 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.48 × 31.7 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.136

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 209, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walter Kirchner (L. 1570a) 166. Heinrich Neuerberg, Cologne. (Christie's, New York, November 1, 1988, lot 72); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington D.C. f(Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.

2013

  • Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.

Inscriptions

lower left (later hand?) in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right (later hand?) in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: Badende Frauen Zwischen Weissen Steinen Sch I S[undeciphered] Nr 148

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: RCK

Wikidata ID

Q76555604

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