Still Life

1907

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

There is a tall vase with white flowers on a round table with a patterned tablecloth. The color scheme includes greens, yellows, blues, and reds. The vase is placed on the right side of the image and there is a small bowl near its base on the table. The background is filled with dense foliage patterns and shadows.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph printed in yellow, blue and red

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 36 x 33.5 cm (14 3/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.5 x 44.2 cm (20 11/16 x 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.732

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unverkäuflich E.L. Kirchner. Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L.1507b) L 49. (Sotheby's New York, May 9-10, 1985, lot 227); (Wolgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 5, 1986; 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. (L) 13

Inscriptions

lower right on plate: ELK; lower left in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; in center in graphite: Farbiger Lothographin/Stilleben; lower right in graphite: Hand druck; along bottom verso by later hand in graphite: 6; 3613o; 44

Wikidata ID

Q76557786

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