Reclining Nude with Cat

1924

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a cover page with a combination of text and a graphic illustration. At the top, bold black text reads, "ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER DAS GRAPHISCHE WERK VON GUSTAV SCHIEFLER EUPHORION VERLAG / BERLIN." Below the text, there is a colorful illustration featuring a reclining nude figure with simplified contours in shades of orange and white against a background with bands of blue and violet. The image depicts the figure stretched out on what appears to be a bed, with one arm resting on the head. The remainder of the page includes a block of text in German, neatly aligned below the illustration. The background of the page is plain beige.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on folded book prospectus

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 6.2 x 9.4 cm (2 7/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
    sheet (folded): 26.5 x 16.2 cm (10 7/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet (unfolded): 26.5 x 32.4 cm (10 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.75.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 878, State B

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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.

Wikidata ID

Q76339122

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