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Trace the long black line of the white dress from the raised knee to the far foot, then compare its curve with the patchy red, blue and green behind it.
The Brücke artists were regular visitors to variety theaters and dance halls, and found many subjects there. In this color lithograph of 1909 a woman in a white dress stretches one leg out across the sheet. Her partner, in a yellow shirt and blue trousers, holds a white cloth up beside her head.
color lithograph on wove paper · overall: 42.3 x 49.6 cm · National Gallery of Art · Die Brücke
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- Museum title
- Russian Dancers
- Artist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880 - 1938
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- color lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 42.3 x 49.6 cm (16 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.