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Self-Portrait with Erna


Melancholisches Mädchen (Melancholy Girl)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
1922

Medium/Technique Woodcut printed in black, purple, and red on off white wove paper
Dimensions Block: 70 x 40 cm (27 9/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 77 x 46 cm (30 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number61.18
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Dube H.480 b.II
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.l.: Eigendruck; l.r.: E L Kirchner; estate stamp in purple ink, verso, l.l.: "Nachlass E. L. Kirchner" (Lugt 1570b)
Provenance1938 until at least 1945, the artist's estate (Lugt 1570b) [see note]. 1960, W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882- d. 1955), Boston; bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 11, 1961)

NOTE: According to Lugt, this particular mark was used for those works on paper deposited with the Kunstmuseum, Basel, during World War II, by the Kirchner estate.