Reclining Nude

1905

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a figure lying down on their back, with one arm extended towards the bottom right and legs extended to the left. The face features are simple, with dark hair flowing back. The figure is unclothed, with no identifiable clothing. In the background, there are circular shapes in the upper part of the image, and a relatively blank space below the figure. No objects or jewelry are visible on the person.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.5 x 13 cm (3 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 11.2 x 19 cm (4 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.675

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 58

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) H 10. (Henze & Ketterer, Bern); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased May 5, 2004; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

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

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 55

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: hand druck; lower left by later hand in graphite: Sch I 10; along left edge of mount by later hand in graphite: K5874; C 4921, 5505; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: 5874

Wikidata ID

Q76557632

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