Women at a Table in a Room

1920

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image displays bold, jagged lines and textured shading in an abstract composition. The outlines suggest figures resembling people around a table. Shapes resembling human faces, a vase, and a bottle are present. The overlapping forms create a dynamic flow across the image, inviting exploration of its complexity.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint and surface etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 25 x 31.7 cm (9 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.7 x 45 cm (14 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.721

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 294, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L.1570b) R 394 III. (Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 3-4, 1985, lot 561); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); 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) 294, iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom left by later hand in graphite: Sch II 394 III; bottom left edge verso by later hand in graphite: 8810; bottom left corner verso by later hand in graphite: 611/561; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K 9153; III = Sch 394 III

Wikidata ID

Q76557761

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