Dancer with Necklace

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Dancer with Necklace

Alternate Title: Tänzerin mit Halskette

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, also active Switzerland 1880-1938)

Germany, 1910

Sculpture

Painted wood

21 3/8 x 6 x 5 1/2 in. (54.2925 x 15.24 x 13.97 cm)

Purchased with funds provided by the Robert Halff Endowment Fund, Modern and Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, Modern Art Acquisition Fund, Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Modern Art Deaccession Fund, and LACMA's 50th Anniversary Gala, in honor of Stephanie Barron, the museum's Senior Curator of Modern Art (M.2015.40)

Modern Art

Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1880-1938); sold in 1914 to Private Collection, Germany and US [1]; by inheritance to Private Collection, USA, probably until 1950; given to Irma (d....

The artist (1880-1938); sold in 1914 to Private Collection, Germany and US [1]; by inheritance to Private Collection, USA, probably until 1950; given to Irma (d. 2012) and Donald (1933-2004) Daiter, Jenkinstown, Pennsylvania, until 2012; by inheritance to their children, Stephen Daiter, Karen Daiter and Eric Daiter; given and sold in 2014 to LACMA.

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Label

Although Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is best known for his paintings and prints, he and his fellow Die Brücke (The Bridge) artists also carved in wood, influenced partly by non-Western art....

Although Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is best known for his paintings and prints, he and his fellow Die Brücke (The Bridge) artists also carved in wood, influenced partly by non-Western art. These rough-hewn sculptures were a particular target of the Nazis in their attack on modern art as “degenerate.” Dancer with Necklace, Kirchner’s first free-standing nude sculpture, was believed to have been lost or destroyed, and was identified in 1982 through images of his Dresden studio. The model is likely his girlfriend, Doris “Dodo” Grosse, identifiable partly through her distinctive hairdo; she is also seen in the nearby painting Two Women.

Wall label, 2021.

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Bibliography

Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
Barron, Stephanie. Acknowledgments, or Every Label Tells a Story. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues: LACMA, 2017.