Two Bathers near the Woods, 1910/1911

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.1 × 34.1 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2012.92.119

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom right, in graphite: E L Kirchner; on verso, Kirchner estate stamp annotated in pen and black ink: A Dre I Bf 5 (?); in graphite: K3642

Provenance

E.L. Kirchner estate, Basel (Lugt 1570b). (Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 17, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hutton Galleries, Leonard
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kirchner, E. L., Estate of

Exhibition History

1924: Herbstausstellung: Zeichnungen, Graphik, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Gouachen, Kleinplastic. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1924, no. 295.

1964: E. L. Kirchner - Brücke. Gallerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, 1964, pp. 24-25, no. 9 (repro).

1964: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Galatea Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 1964, no. 18.

1972: German Expressionist Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Sculpture. Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 1972, 39, no. 37 (repro.)

1988: German Expressionist Graphics, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1988.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Royal Academy of Art, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, pp. 10, 249, no. 70 (color)(Washington only).

2006: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth. Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2006 (no cat.).

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