Past Exhibition

Lovis Corinth

The image shows a sketch of a woman from the waist up in a seated position, with her legs extended to her right. She holds an open book in her left hand at eye level. She has medium-length, wavy dark hair and facial features are subtly sketched. She is wearing a dress with short sleeves and there is an indication of a pattern on the fabric, along with a belt at her waist. The sketch is primarily created with charcoal or pencil on a textured paper background, with expressive, rapid strokes that suggest the background without detailing it extensively.
Lovis Corinth, Lesendes Mädchen (Girl Reading), 1911, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of the Marcy Family in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy, 1991.210.12

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The image shows a sketch of a woman from the waist up in a seated position, with her legs extended to her right. She holds an open book in her left hand at eye level. She has medium-length, wavy dark hair and facial features are subtly sketched. She is wearing a dress with short sleeves and there is an indication of a pattern on the fabric, along with a belt at her waist. The sketch is primarily created with charcoal or pencil on a textured paper background, with expressive, rapid strokes that suggest the background without detailing it extensively.
Lovis Corinth, Lesendes Mädchen (Girl Reading), 1911, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of the Marcy Family in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy, 1991.210.12

Overview: This exhibition of 75 prints and drawings by Corinth celebrated the 50th anniversary gift to the National Gallery of 134 works from the Sigbert H. Marcy family. Included in the show were nudes, portraits, self-portraits, mythological and religious scenes, landscapes, and interiors.

Organization: Andrew Robison, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator, and Christopher B. With, coordinating curator of art information, were joint curators.

Attendance: 85,707

Catalog: Lovis Corinth: Master Prints and Drawings from the Marcy Family and the National Gallery of Art, by Christopher B. With. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1993.

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