Two Nudes

1904/1906

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.2 x 48 cm (24 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.12.29

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 348

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Society of Brothers; acquired 14 April 1953 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1954 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Dahesh Museum, New York; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1999-2000, 4, fig. 2. (Williamstown and New York only).

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 116.

1972

  • Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.

1999

  • Weisberg, Gabriel P. and Jane R. Becker, eds. Overcoming All Obstacles:The Women of the Académie Julian. New York, 1999: fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Kollwitz; inscription dated 1944on verso

Watermarks

INGRES JCA France

Wikidata ID

Q64591956

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