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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 277 | $****** - ****** | Unterhaltung |
Works on Paper
35 x 47 cm (13.78 x 18.5 in)
Watercolor and ink brush over chalk drawing, On firm, smooth wove paper, the full sheet
Signed in the upper left and in the center at the top. Verso with the estate stamp (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten numbering “A Da/Bi 10"
Artist"s estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946). Galerie Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden. Private collection, northern Germany. Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 2006, Villa Grisebach, Berlin). Art trade, Germany (acquired from the above). Private collection, northern Germany (acquired from the above). Acquired by the current owner from the above.
Weinmüller Auction House, Munich, 97th auction, catalog 105, Modern Art, November 5, 1965, lot 140 (with illustration, plate 62). Grisebach Auctions, Berlin, 134th auction, Selected Works, May 26, 2006, lot 43 (with color illustration, p. 74).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Unterhaltung
1923.
Watercolor and ink brush over chalk drawing.
Signed in the upper left and in the center at the top. Verso with the estate stamp (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten numbering “A Da/Bi 10". On firm, smooth wove paper. 35 x 47 cm (13.7 x 18.5 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• A colorful watercolor painting featuring many figures from Kirchner"s time in Davos.
• The convivial scene probably shows E. L. Kirchner himself, his partner Erna Schilling, and a guest, presumably the art collector and critic Gustav Schiefler, who visited the artist in Davos in June 1923.
• Gesamtkunstwerk: In the watercolor, Kirchner displays some of his self-carved furniture, including a bench backrest with mother and child figures, completed in the year this watercolor was created (cf. CR Henze 193/02).
• The furnishings depicted can also be found in the painting “Kaffeetisch” (Gordon 754, Folkwang Museum, Essen) from the same year, which is closely related to this watercolor in terms of motif and color
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This work is documented in the
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
