Three Bathers by Stones

1913

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph in pink, blue, red, and black on calendered paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.1 x 65.1 cm (19 3/4 x 25 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.95.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 235, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist (L.4337); gift 1918 to the Kunstverein Jena, in honor of Botho Graef [1857-1917]; (Buchholz Gallery, Berlin and New York). [1] (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1979); (via August Laube, R.M. Light, and David Tunick); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1986.
[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13176, and sold by Buchholz Gallery, Berlin and New York, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1984

  • Master Prints from Washington Private Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 67.

1992

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 100, as Three Bathers among the Stones.

2008

  • Kirchner and the Berlin Street, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 July 2008 - 10 November 2008.

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.

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 22, repro. on frontispiece.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 43, no. 100.

2008

  • Wye, Deborah. Kirchner and the Berlin Street. (Exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008), New York, 2008, unnumbered exhibition catalogue.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: E L Kirchner; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 75; by unknown hand, upper left verso in graphite: NO 75; by unknown hand, lower left verso in graphite: W 4863; by unknown hand, lCv//in graphite, circled: 282

Wikidata ID

Q74875776

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