Female Nude

1908

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on blotting paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 49.4 x 38.1 cm (19 7/16 x 15 in.)
    sheet: 52.4 x 41.9 cm (20 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.47.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 129, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kirchner estate (L.Supp.1570b annotated H 101). (R.M Light, Santa Barbara, CA); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased 1976; gift to NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

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., 2003, no. 9.

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, 2, repro. p.19.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 15, no. 9.

Inscriptions

lower left below image in graphite: [undeciphered); lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; by unknown hand, lower right corner in graphite: 10[1?]; by later hand, lLv//in graphite: 1093/31 503-

Wikidata ID

Q74877132

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