About the Artwork
Cafe
1928
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (80 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 37 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (95.3 × 85.1 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson
59.450
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Markings
Signed, lower left center: E L Kirchner Signed, verso: E L Kirchner 28 | Cafe 28
Inscribed, verso, at left: Nachlass E. L. Kirchner Da | Bi 12
Marked, label, back of stretcher, upper left: Bucholz Gallery Marked, label, back of stretcher, upper left: Fine Art Associated
Provenance
estate of Ernst L. Kirchner. (Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1951, purchased by Morton D. May (St. Louis, Missouri, USA). Otto. M. Gerson. December 28, 1959, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Wilkinson
1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gordon, D. E. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Cambridge, 1968, no. 899, p. 397 [as dated 1927-28].
Traditions: The Region/The World. Exh. cat. (?), Michigan Artrain. Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, 1981, no. 38 (ill.).
Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the DIA, 1982, p. 104 (ill).
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cafe, 1928, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson, 59.450.
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