Erna Lying on the Beach among Rocks, 1912

Not on View

Medium

reed pen and black ink

Dimensions

overall: 46.1 x 58.9 cm (18 1/8 x 23 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.18.1

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: E L Kirchner; in unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 12; in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 182 (encircled)

Provenance

Dr. Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz, Düsseldorf; (sale, Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 20-21 June 1973, no. 362); D. Thomas Bergen, London; (Carus Gallery, New York); purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Carus Gallery, Inc.
Kornfeld and Klipstein

Exhibition History

1986: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1992: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.

1995: Modern Hieroglyphs: Gestural Drawing and the European Vanguard 1900-1918, The Equitable Gallery, New York, 1995, fig. 10.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 18, as Erna Lying on the Beach among Rocks.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003, no. 97, as Erna Lying on the Beach Among Rocks.

Bibliography

1968: Gordon, D., KIRCHNER, NY: 1968, 81.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 18.