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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Two Women1911-1912/1922

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Oil painting of two full-length women in navy coats and wide-brimmed hats standing side by side against a vivid yellow, pink, and green background, rendered with bold brushwork and dark contour lines

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Two Women, 1911-1912/1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of B. Gerald Cantor, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Germany, also active Switzerland 1880-1938
Title
Two Women
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911-1912/1922
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59 × 47 in. (149.86 × 119.38 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of B. Gerald Cantor
Accession Number
60.33
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1880-1938), Berlin and Davos; Kirchner Estate, probably until 1958; [Eugene V. Thaw, The New Gallery, New York]; sold to B. Gerald Cantor (1916-1996), Los Angeles; given in 1960 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.

  • Herold, Inge, Ulrike Lorenz, and Thorsten Sadowsky. Der Doppelte Kirchner: Die Zwei Seiten der Leinwand. Mannheim: Kunsthalle Mannheim; Davos: Kirchner Museum; Köln: Wienand, 2015

  • Gordon, Donald E. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.1968. Catalogue raisonné, no. 554, p. 346, illustrated.

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