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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2018 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Classics of the 20th Century I | 834 | $****** - ****** | Selbstporträt mit Gerda (Mann und Sitzende im Atelier) |
Works on Paper
67.4 x 52 cm (26.54 x 20.47 in)
Color Pastel drawing over charcoal, on creme wove paper
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570b) and with the hand-written registration number "FS Be/Bg 19"
From the artist's estate.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1963 (with hand-written note on verso of the frame).
Private collection (acquired from aforementioned and consigned to following auction).
Sothebys London, auction on June 1, 1981, lot 343, with color plate.
Private collection.
Private collection Switzerland.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Zum fünfundzwanzigsten Todestag, Aquarelle, Bilder, Zeichnungen, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1963, p. 28, cat. no. 67, with illu.
"The artistic quality and significance of this pastel is one-of-a-kind. Comparable works by Kirchner are almost entirely in museum possession. What else is so remarkable is the format of the paper, as Kirchner chose to work in this size only on very few occasions. These occasions mark the highlight of his graphic creation."
Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach, November 2018.
Selbstporträt mit Gerda (Mann und Sitzende im Atelier). 1915.
Color Pastel drawing over charcoal.
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570b) and with the hand-written registration number "FS Be/Bg 19". On slightly structured, creme wove paper. 67.4 x 52 cm (26.5 x 20.4 in).
Only five drawings by Kirchner in this unusually large format have been offered on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com)..
The work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1963 (with hand-written note on verso of the frame).
Private collection (acquired from aforementioned and consigned to following auction).
Sothebys London, auction on June 1, 1981, lot 343, with color plate.
Private collection.
Private collection Switzerland.
LITERATURE: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Zum fünfundzwanzigsten Todestag, Aquarelle, Bilder, Zeichnungen, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1963, p. 28, cat. no. 67, with illu.
"The artistic quality and significance of this pastel is one-of-a-kind. Comparable works by Kirchner are almost entirely in museum possession. What else is so remarkable is the format of the paper, as Kirchner chose to work in this size only on very few occasions. These occasions mark the highlight of his graphic creation."
Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach, November 2018.
"The way I depicted people in my works was decisively influenced by my third wife, a lady from Berlin, with whom I would spend my life, and her sister. Their beautiful, architecturally structured bodies replaced the soft Saxon bodies. [..] The stronger and bolder experience I had in Berlin, this open relationship with this woman [..] inspired my work so much that I was able to create entirely new forms solely from this lust for life. Forms developd with such determination and consistency, that we were able to conquer the top of the Berlin modern art scene without any problem." (Source: From Kirchner's manuscript for "Die Arbeit E. L. Kirchners", presuably written in 1925/26, ex. cat. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Nachzeichnung eines Lebens, Kunstmuseum Basel, Bern 1979, published by Eberhard W. Kornfeld, pp. 336f.)
Called up: December 8, 2018 - ca. 16.52 h +/- 20 min.
