Nude Girl Lying on a Sofa

1905

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

This print depicts a stylized, abstract human figure with light skin reclining on a patterned couch. Their head is in the upper left corner, resting on one arm of the couch, and the rest of their body stretches towards the right, with their long legs crossed and extended down to the floor. Their head is small compared to the rest of their body, and their facial features are drawn with simple lines. Their hair isn't visible. The person is nude, with their arms crossed across their chest. Most of what we see is their stomach and long, crossed legs. The couch is pattered in bold, zigzagging black and white stripes with small black dots. The floor and wall are both black, with some white vertical lines in the top left suggesting a window obscured by blinds, or perhaps a piece of furniture. Below the print, a name is signed in gray pencil on the beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.3 x 10 cm (3 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 58 x 22.3 cm (22 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.450

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 55


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sotheby's, New York, May 15-16, 1986, lot 331); (via Hom Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 55

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: EL Kirchner

Wikidata ID

Q76556942

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