Bogenschýtze. 1920.
Color Chalk drawing and pencil.
Signed in center at bottom. With estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel ( Lugt 1570b) in upper right and with hand-written number "H 303 D". On firm wove paper. 58.8 x 40.3 cm (23.1 x 15.8 in) , the full sheet.
Verso with the woodcut "Kopf Karl Butz - Oberpfleger Karl Butz" from 1917/18 (Dube 323, Gercken 881). [KD].
This is a preliminary work for the painting "Bogenschýtze" of the same name, today in possession of the Kirchner Museum, Davos (Gordon 994).
With a photo expertise from Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Campione, dated March 1, 1993.
The work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hanna Becker vom Rath, 1954, cat. no. 83
Neumeisters Moderne, Munich 12th auction, November 1992, cat. no. 240.
Private collection Northern Germany.
LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Kirchner Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925, plate 87.