The Kiss

1930

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.5 × 33.5 cm (15 15/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 54.7 × 42.5 cm (21 9/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.702

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 621, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner [1880-1938], Berlin and Davos (Lugt 1570b). (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 31, 1979; 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) 621, i/ii

Wikidata ID

Q76557716

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