Two Peasant Heads, 1920

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint

Dimensions

image: 32 x 25.5 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 41.5 x 31 cm (16 5/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 316, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.719

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; bottom center in graphite: Bergbauern; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K9440; =Sch 354 II

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 354. (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased November 1, 2007; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Maass, Jörg

Bibliography

1967: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 316, iii/iii