Heads of Two Girls

1919

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 x 17.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.7 x 21.1 cm (11 5/16 x 8 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.718

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 283, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 246 II. (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased October 31, 1979; 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. (I) 283, ii/ii

Inscriptions

bottom center in graphite: Zwei Mädchen; lower left verso in red crayon: Zwei Mädchen Köpfe / 18 36; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K 9224 / K 9224 / II=Sch 246 II; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: 2.Z.; bottom center verso by later hand in graphite: C3564

Wikidata ID

Q76557755

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