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

1912

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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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

    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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