Fehmarn Girls, 1913

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in black on yellow paper

Dimensions

image: 43.5 x 37.1 cm (17 1/8 x 14 5/8 in.)

sheet: 51.4 x 44.1 cm (20 1/4 x 17 3/8 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. (W), no. 219, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1991.156.2

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower left in graphite: (illegible); by later hand, lower left in graphite: D 219 II auf gelbe (oberer Rand noch nicht begradigt (III) 1913; lRv//in graphite: Fehmarn Madchen / [illegible]; by later hand, lLv//in graphite: von Ebe rhard Grisebach / am 4.11.20 / aago; by later hand, lCv//in graphite: 230

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Eberhard Grisebach by 1920. (Alice Adam, Chicago); [1] (Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 22, 1978; gift to the NGA, 1991.

[1] According to a handwritten note on the receipt, this print came to Graphics International via Alice Adam.

Associated Names

Adam, Alice
Graphics International
Grisebach, Eberhard
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 66.

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.