Pianist and Singer, 1928

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in black on blue blotting paper

Dimensions

image: 45.4 x 34.9 cm (17 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 55.5 x 42.5 cm (21 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 598, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1991.156.7

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: E L Kirchner 28; lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; by later hand, lower left in graphite: NL641II; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Kat Baen 1933 No 265?; by later hand, lLv//in graphite: II Hintergrund zwischen den figuren / 5268 / K 5637 /

Provenance

Kirchner Estate (L. Supp. 1570b annotated H Da/Bi 3II). (David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased by November 21, 1979; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

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.