Reclining Nude, 1907

Not on View

Medium

lithograph on cardboard

Dimensions

sheet: 36.9 x 44.9 cm (14 1/2 x 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 37, bis

Accession Number

1986.95.1

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: [Liegender akt?]; lower right in graphite: ELKirchner; by unknown hand, lower left verso in graphite: 960/XI

Provenance

The artist (L.4337); probably gift 1918 to the Kunstverein Jena, in honor of Botho Graef [1857-1917]. [1] Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1986.

[1] The L.4337 stamp appears to be only associated with the gift to Jena. The print was therefore probably confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," and sold by one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institution, although it has not been identified with a specific object on the official list of Degenerate Art confiscation from Jena (original, National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Associated Names

Jena Kunstverein
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1926: Schiefler, Gustav.Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners bis 1924. Berlin, 1926: no. 16.

1967: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.

1985: NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 1.