Russian Dancers, 1909

Not on View

Medium

color lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 42.3 x 49.6 cm (16 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 130, State only

Accession Number

1986.95.4

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: (illegible); lower right in graphite: E L.Kirchner; lower left verso in graphite: (3 illegible words); in later hand, lower left in graphite: Sch .89.(illegible); by unknown hand, lR //in graphite: IO[?] / ET; by unknown hand, lCv//in graphite, circled: 367

Provenance

(Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 3-4, 1976, lot 805); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Hauswedell & Nolte
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

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

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 35.

2008: Kirchner and the Berlin Street, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 July 2008 - 10 November 2008.

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, 6, repro. p.42.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 10, 43, no. 35.

2008: Wye, Deborah. Kirchner and the Berlin Street. (Exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008), New York, 2008, unnumbered exhibition catalogue.