The Kiss
Series TitlePan, Vol. IV, No. 2
Artist
Peter Behrens
(German, 1868 - 1940)
Date1898
MediumSix-color woodcut
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 8 7/16 inches (26.99 × 21.43 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (36.83 × 27.62 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (36.83 × 27.62 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation
Object numberF86-16
SignedSigned in block with artist’s monogram, lower center.
InscribedInscribed lower left: PETER BEHRENS, SECHSFARBIGER ORIGINALHOLZSCHNITT PAN IV 2
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 130
Collections
Exhibition HistoryThirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19 - December 31, 1989, no. 27.
Reflections of Nature: Monet’s
Water Lilies and Art Nouveau,
part of the series Monet in Conversation, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art, Kansas City, MO, May 2, 2026–May 2, 2027, no cat.
In this woodcut by Peter Behrens, two people kiss. Their lighter and darker brown hair entwine in the simulation of an embrace. The lack of other identifying features makes it difficult to interpret their gender identities. Although the subjects are printed in six colors, Behrens omitted any shading, flattening the image.
The tangle of submerged vegetation in Monet’s Water Lilies is reminiscent of the interlaced hair in this woodcut.
With Lords Gallery, Ltd., London, by May 19, 1986;
Purchased from Lords Gallery, Ltd., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.Pan 4, no. 2 (July–September 1898): facing p. 116, (repro.).
Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989), 9, (repro.).
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 304, (repro.), as The Kiss.
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