Parterre-Akrobaten (Akrobatinnen). 1932.
Black Chalk drawing.
Lower left signed and dated. On light creme board. 36.2 x 51.1 cm (14.2 x 20.1 in) , almost the full sheet.
This work is a preliminary drawing for the oil painting "Akrobatenpaar" (Gordon 966) from teh same year. [CH].
This work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos (ex. cat. no. 246).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 19th auction, May 19, 1954, cat. no. 1219 (no illu.).
Collection Dr. Bernhard Sprengel, Hanover.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 293rd auction, June 12, 1992, cat. no. 412 (with illu.).
Private collection Lower Saxony.
EXHIBITION: E. L. Kirchner Gemälde + Graphik. Sammlung Dr. F. Bauer - Davos, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nov. to Dec. 1952, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, June 19 - August 19, 1953 and others, cat. no. 246 (no illu.).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthandlung Gauss, Munich, February 24 - March 11, 1954, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, March 17 - April 19, 1954 etc. (no illu.).
LITERATURE: Wolfgang Henze, Die Plastik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners. Monographie mit Werkverzeichnis, Bern 2002, p. 393, fig. 253 (with illu.).
Called up: December 6, 2018 - ca. 13.40 h +/- 20 min.