1914, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Five Coquettes on the Street (Kaiser Cafe, Berlin) [woodcut] -- Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven) (special exhibition)

From the museum label: The forms an artist renders on the matrix—in this case, on the woodblock—are always reversed during the printing process. Likewise, the woodcut version of Five Coquettes on the Street (Kaiser Café, Berlin) is a mirror image of the painting on which it is based (Museum Ludwig, Cologne). Even after translating the motif into print, Kirchner continued to rework the composition; in the later state seen here, he carved out greater detail in the face of the leftmost figure. He also removed ornamental shapes to better focus on the costume of the so-called coquettes, thereby presenting-perhaps more than in most of his street scenes—the female sex worker as a distinct sociological type. The women, arranged in a row that emphasizes the highly constructed nature of the composition, gaze listlessly as an automobile speeds by on the right.

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