Frau und Kind am Strand. 1926.
Watercolor and gouache over chalk drawing.
Signed and dated lower right. Verso titled by Siddi Heckel. On wove paper. 57 x 54 cm (22.4 x 21.2 in), the full sheet.
The famous motif of the bathing lady on the beach.
This work is registered in the estate archive. We are grateful to Renate Ebner and Hans Geissler, estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen on lake Constance, for their kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Erich Heckel (until 1965).
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York.
Private collection USA.
Sothebys, New York, 21 October 1976, lot 125.
Private collection.
EXHIBITION: Duisburg, Städtisches Museum, Erich Heckel, 1957, no. 101
Düsseldorf, Galerie Großhennig, Erich Heckel, 1958, no. 6
Erich Heckel. Gemälde Aquarelle Zeichnungen. Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 26 February to 17 April, 1966, cat. no. 111 with illu.