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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2023 | Christie's | London | 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | Zwei Menschen im Freien |
paintings
80.6 x 69.5 cm (31.75 x 27.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed with initials and inscribed ‘EH 09' (lower right); signed and inscribed again ‘Erich Heckel 1909' (on the reverse); signed and inscribed again ‘Heckel Zwei Menschen im Freien 1909' (on the stretcher)
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione, by whom acquired directly from the artist by 1965.
Galleria Henze, Campione, by whom acquired from the above in 1983.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired from the above by 1984, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Stuttgart, Wu¨rttembergischer Kunstverein, Erich Heckel: Werke der Bru¨ckezeit 1907-1917: Gema¨lde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik , September - October 1957, no. 16 (dated '1909').
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen , February - April 1966, no. 63, p. 70 (illustrated p. 71; dated '1909').
Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen , May - June 1966, no. 63, p. 70 (illustrated p. 71; dated '1909').
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik , 1970, no. 2, p. 20 (illustrated p. 21; dated '1909').
Berlin, Brücke-Museum, Künstler der Brücke an den Moritzburger Seen 1909-1911: Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein , October - December 1970, no. 34, p. 16 (illustrated p. 17).
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Erich Heckel zum 90. Geburtstag: Gemälde , Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik , 1973, no. 2, p. 11 (illustrated p. 10; dated '1909').
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik , September - November 1983, no. 16, p. 97 (illustrated; dated '1909'); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, December 1983 - February 1984.
Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, XLII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte , June - September 1986, no. 769, p. 159 (dated '1909').
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Figures du Moderne: L' Expressionnisme en Allemagne, 1905 à 1914 , November 1992 - March 1993, no. 3, p. 369 (illustrated p. 78; titled ‘Deux Personnages dans la nature').
Zeitz, Museum Schloss Moritzburg, K ü nstler der Brücke in Moritzburg , July - October 1995, no. 37, pp. 126 and 247 (illustrated p. 127).
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, The Romantic Spirit in German Art: 1790-1990 , July - September 1994, no. 137 (illustrated p. 326; dated '1909'); this exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery, September 1994 - January 1995; and Munich, Haus der Kunst, February - May 1995.
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Paul Gauguin: Das verlorene Paradies , June - October 1998, no. E2; this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, October 1998 - January 1999.
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Die Badenden: Mensch und Natur im deutschen Expressionismus , September - November 2000, no. 37 (illustrated; dated '1909').
Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister, Die Brücke in Dresden 1905-1911 , October 2001 - January 2002, no. 265, p. 410 (illustrated p. 220).
Arona, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Villa Ponti, Fantastico Novecento ad Arona: da Picasso a Kandinsky , July - November 2003, p. 20 (illustrated).
Arona, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Villa Ponti, Femme fatale: Il mito universale della donna nell'arte, d a Modigliani a Warhol , July - November 2004 (titled ‘Due figure in libertà').
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Brücke: El nacimiento del expresionismo alemán , February - May 2005, no. 157; this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, June - September 2005.
P. Vogt, Erich Heckel , Recklinghausen, 1965, no. 14 (illustrated; dated '1909').
R.N. Ketterer, Moderne Kunst VI , Campione, 1969, no. 22 (dated '1909').
A. Henze, Erich Heckel , Stuttgart, 1983, no. 2, p. 4 (illustrated; dated '1909').
J. Lloyd, German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity , New Haven, 1991, no. 143, p. 112 (illustrated; dated '1909').
A. Hüneke, Erich Heckel, Werkverzeichnis der Gem ä lde, Wandbilder und Skuplturen , vol. I, 1904-1918 , Potsdam, 2017, no. 1910-42, p. 111 (illustrated).
ERICH HECKEL (1883-1970)
Zwei Menschen im Freien
signed with initials and inscribed ‘EH 09' (lower right); signed and inscribed again ‘Erich Heckel 1909' (on the reverse); signed and inscribed again ‘Heckel Zwei Menschen im Freien 1909' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
31 3/4 in x 27 3/8 in. (80.5 x 69.5 cm.)
Painted in 1910
