Head of Dr. Bauer, 1933

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut printed in black, purple, green, ochre, blue, and red-brown on japan paper

Dimensions

image: 50 x 34.9 cm (19 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 64.4 x 43.2 cm (25 3/8 x 17 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 633, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.138

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; botom center by later hand in graphite: 1933

Provenance

Freidrich Bauer, purchased directly from the artist; by descent, his family; (Sotheby's, London, July 1, 2003, lot 88); (via Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bauer, F., Dr.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.
Sotheby's

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, no. (L) 633, ii/ii