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The image shows bold black lines and shapes on a yellow background. The central figure has eye shapes, a nose, and geometric mouth shapes. The surrounding black shapes suggest hair or a headdress, contributing to the abstract representation of a head or mask-like figure.
National Gallery of Art · Volume
Back cover from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- woodcut from a bound volume with 17 woodcuts (including title page and front and back covers) and three photomechanical relief prints (of drawings) on coated paper
- Dimensions
- book: 27 × 21 × 2 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 × 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Volume · Print
- Accession number
- 2012.92.627.19
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-W
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Arnolds Graphische Bûcher (Second Series, Volume 6)
- Volume
- Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Subjects and terms
- German
- woodcut
- German Expressionist
Provenance
(Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 23, 1997, lot 529); [1] Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012. [1] The donor archive also includes a second receipt for the same publication from Ars Libri, Boston, in 1991.
NGA object ID 227730. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.