Female Nude Before a Cabinet

1916

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image features bold, jagged lines and sharp angles forming an abstract figure. Geometric shapes and outlines suggest a humanoid form in a contemplative stance, with stark contrasts and irregular patterns resembling muscles and bones. The angular shapes may suggest draped cloth or background architecture, creating visual complexity.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.2 x 14.2 cm (7 3/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.686

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 287, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection Aebli-Streiff, Zurich (no mark). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 17, 2006; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 287, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower right in red pencil: EL Kirchner; bottom left by later hand in graphite: Sch I 225; bottom right by later hand in graphite: DUBE 287/11; bottom verso by later hand in graphite: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Wikidata ID

Q76557670

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