Woman Lying on a Sofa

1926

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image depicts a stylized figure of a person reclining on a patterned chaise lounge. The figure is in a relaxed, semi-recumbent pose with abstract facial features, straight hair, and appears nude except for implied drapery over the lower body. Surrounding the figure are decorative elements, such as multiple human forms and vertical striping, hinting at a complex interior space.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 30 x 42.2 cm (11 13/16 x 16 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 33.8 x 47 cm (13 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.451

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 556, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January, 1973; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 556, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower center in graphite: Liegende Frau 27; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom left corner by later hand in graphite: I; bottom center verso in blue pencil: Liegende Frau 2; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: 63; K 5379; 5002; I Sch 552 II; SRC 17; bottom left verso by later hand in blue pencil: 299; lower right by later hand in graphite: 68130528; SVP; 57808 [crossed out]

Wikidata ID

Q76556943

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