Five Women on the Street, 1914

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 48.5 x 37 cm (19 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)

sheet: 52 x 39 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 240, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1985.46.1

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: E L Kirchner

Provenance

Unidentified private collection, Berlin; (Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf). (R.M. Light, & Co., Boston); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 19, 1976; gift to NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Light & Co., R. M.
Wittrock, Wolfgang

Exhibition History

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

1993: Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993-1994, no. 112, pl. 93.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 114, as Five Women on the Street.

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.

1985: NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 14, repro. p.44.

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 324, repro.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 43, no. 114.