Performer Bowing
1909
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
color lithograph in red, black, and blue on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 38.3 x 32.9 cm (15 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
sheet: 51.6 x 44.8 cm (20 5/16 x 17 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1989.80.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 122
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Kirchner Estate (Lugt 1570b). (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2 June 1978, lot 650); (via David Tunick, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1989.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 278-279, color repro.
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. 33.
2008
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - fabige Druckgraphik, Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 13 Sep 2008 - 23 Nov 2008; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany, 7 Dec 2008 - 15 Feb 2009.
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, 9, repro. on cover and p.20.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.278.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 10, 43, no. 33.
2008
Gercken, Günther. Ernst Ludwig - farbige Druckgraphik. (Exh. cat. Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, 2008-2009). Berlin, 2008: no. 111.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in graphite: 1909 24 x 19; lower left verso stamped: NACHLASS / E.L. KIRCHNER; lower left verso in black ink inside stamp: L81 II D; lower left verso in graphite: K 379 / 992 / Ko / DTM127BLH; lCv//in graphite: 68 x 0 / 231 / E68-255
Markings
L 81 II D (stamp in ink, verso); RcK
Wikidata ID
Q74884393