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Look at the strong pink of the bodies against the blue, and at how the black outlines run freely, sometimes beside the color rather than around it.
Three bathers crouch on red stones beside blue water in this color lithograph of 1913. It is printed in pink, blue, red and black on smooth calendered paper. MoMA calls lithography the print medium closest to drawing, and the black outlines here keep the loose feel of a drawn line.
color lithograph in pink, blue, red, and black on calendered paper · overall: 50.1 x 65.1 cm · National Gallery of Art · Die Brücke
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Three Bathers by Stones
- Artist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880 - 1938
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- color lithograph in pink, blue, red, and black on calendered paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 50.1 x 65.1 cm (19 3/4 x 25 5/8 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.