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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 7, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Modern Art Day Sale | 201 | $****** - ****** | Zwei Badende an der Fehmarnküste |
Works on Paper
56.5 x 45 cm (22.24 x 17.72 in)
Pencil drawing, On wove paper
With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number "B Be/Bf 72" on the reverse
Artist"s estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, with the estate stamp on the reverse). Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1994).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 197, Modern Art II, June 6, 1994, lot 144 (illu.). Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 14.21 h +/- 20 min.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Zwei Badende an der Fehmarnküste
1913.
Pencil drawing.
With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number "B Be/Bf 72" on the reverse. On wove paper. 56.5 x 45 cm (22.2 x 17.7 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• From the sought-after creative years in Berlin.
• E. L. Kirchner spent the summer of 1913 with his partner Erna Schilling on the island of Fehmarn, his beloved retreat far away from the Berlin hustle and bustle.
• In the summer of 1913, only a few months after the artists" group had disbanded, Kirchner"s former "Brücke" colleague Otto Mueller and his wife Maschka came to Fehmarn for a visit.
• Uninhibited nudity in nature was an important source of inspiration for E. L. Kirchner and his fellow "Brücke" artists and characteristic of their expressionist work.
• In the same year, Kirchner also painted "Badende am Strand, Fehmarn" (Bathers on the Beach, Fehnmarn) (Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
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The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive in Wichtrach/Bern, Switzerland.
