Nude Dancer

1906

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

This print shows bold, curving lines surrounding a central rectangle which encloses the black silhouette of a person with their legs bent and arms raised. Their bent knees are high, and their body is so close to the ground they are almost sitting. Their feet are in the bottom corners of the rectangle, while their hands are in the top corners. The black silhouette is set against white paper, and the borders of the rectangle are made of white and black lines. The swirling shapes that surround the central rectangle resemble stylized waves or curls with circles cut from them, and these shapes are in white against a black background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black on buff paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Andrew Robison, in honor of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 13.8 x 11.6 cm (5 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.7 x 17.8 cm (7 3/8 x 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.82.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 48

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of the artist. (Henze & Ketterer Galerie für moderne Kunst, Bern); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.

1980

  • Dube, Wolf-Dieter. E.L. Kirchner: das graphische Werk. Munich, 1980.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: K 5366 / C3576 / 4989 (crossed out); by later hand, lower left verso in ink: C 3516 / K5366

Wikidata ID

Q76339107

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