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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Performer Bowing, 1909

Not on View

Medium

color lithograph in red, black, and blue on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 38.3 x 32.9 cm (15 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 51.6 x 44.8 cm (20 5/16 x 17 5/8 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. (L), no. 122

Accession Number

1989.80.16

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: 1909 24 x 19; lower left verso stamped: NACHLASS / E.L. KIRCHNER; lower left verso in black ink inside stamp: L81 II D; lower left verso in graphite: K 379 / 992 / Ko / DTM127BLH; lCv//in graphite: 68 x 0 / 231 / E68-255

Marks and Labels

L 81 II D (stamp in ink, verso); RcK

Provenance

Kirchner Estate (Lugt 1570b). (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2 June 1978, lot 650); (via David Tunick, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 278-279, color repro.

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. 33.

2008: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - fabige Druckgraphik, Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 13 Sep 2008 - 23 Nov 2008; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany, 7 Dec 2008 - 15 Feb 2009.

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, 9, repro. on cover and p.20.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.278.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 10, 43, no. 33.

2008: Gercken, Günther. Ernst Ludwig - farbige Druckgraphik. (Exh. cat. Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, 2008-2009). Berlin, 2008: no. 111.