Aline and Her Lover in Old Age in the Valley of Their Youth (Aline und der Geliebte als alte Leute in ihrem Jugendtal) from The Queen of Golconda (Die Königin von Golkonde)
Lovis Corinth
German, 1858–1925
(1920/21)
A color lithograph in which Lovis Corinth presents Aline and her lover as aged figures reunited in the valley of their youth, using loose, painterly strokes to mix tenderness with a mythic, haloed aura.
What strikes you is the sketchlike, scumbled surface—earthy browns and blues punctuated by a radiant yellow halo and flicks of red—where a crouched, vulnerable man leans into a dark-robed, quietly monumental woman set against a low, rolling landscape.
Made late in Corinth’s career as part of a twelve-print suite, this work shows his shift toward painterly, expressionist lithography and helped expand the emotional and textural possibilities of modern German printmaking.
Medium
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg. ): 7 3/16 x 6 9/16" (18.2 x 16.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 7/16" (39 x 29 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of J. B. Neumann
Accession
343.1956
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