Selbstbildnis 1919 (Self-Portrait 1919)

1919

Lovis Corinth

Associated Names
Lovis Corinth

Artist, German, 1858 - 1925

The image shows a sketch of a man seated with arms crossed. His head is slightly tilted. The man's facial features are obscured by heavy shading. His hair is short and he is wearing a jacket and shirt. The background is dark with vertical shading lines.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.6 x 25.4 cm (15 9/16 x 10 in.)
    sheet: 50 x 32.5 cm (19 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.98.268

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schwarz/Muller, no. 354

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., 1975; acquired 2002 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, as "Self-Portrait Sketching".

Bibliography

1922

  • Schwarz, Karl. _Das graphische Werk von Lovis Corinth. _Berlin, Germany: Fritz Gurlitt, 1922, no. 354

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Lovis Corinth

Wikidata ID

Q76347871

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