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Related Work
| This wet-on-wet
watercolor demonstrates a more romantic approach to the
Vistula theme. The work relates to another 1980 Kiefer
watercolor, "Yggdrasil," in which stags run
across the scene in front of tall conifers. In Old Norse
legend, stags gnaw at the buds of the World Ash, called
Yggdrasil. |

Ride to the Vistula
"Ritt an die Weichsel"
1980. Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
19 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (49.5 x 63.8 cm)
Inscribed lower left in watercolor: Ritt an die Weichsel
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
1995.14.34
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