The right hand figure is seated on what appears to be a rose and yellow lounge chair, her legs pulled up and curled under her. The figure on the left prepares to sit. The most notable feature of this work is the deft and aggressive rendering of the pencil sketch. Kirchner drew his composition in soft graphite pencil, and then added the faint and spare touches of watercolor wash. Undissolved particles of watercolor are visible in the red areas.
Details
- Artist Name: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938)
- Title: Seated Female Nudes
- Date: 1913-1914
- Medium: Watercolor and pencil on wove paper
- Dimensions: 22 x 17-1/2 in. (55.9 x 44.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.277
- Copyright: © (for works by E. L. Kirchner) by Ingeborg & Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern
Object Information
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: A Retrospective
- Seattle Art Museum, 1968-11-23 to 1969-01-05
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1969-01-15 to 1969-02-23
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1969-03-20 to 1969-04-27
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
Works by the Die Brucke Artists
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-04-24 to 1973-06-03
German Expressionist Exhibition
- Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18
Expressionists
- Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-
Thirty European Modernists
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29
European Modernists
- Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 383 pp. 141, 148
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 378 pp. 369-370
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