The Finger Game

1905

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a person standing upright, with their head slightly tilted down and hands close to their chest. They have a stylized face with a calm expression, dark eyebrows, and dark, neatly styled hair in an updo. The person is unclothed and the image has an abstract and artistic style. The background has bold vertical lines and elongated ovals against a dark backdrop, with a floor featuring diagonal lines to create a sense of perspective.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black ink

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 15 x 9 cm (5 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 19 x 18 cm (7 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.674

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 50

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 23, 1997, lot 509); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

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, no. (W) 50

Wikidata ID

Q76557630

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