Lot 167
  • 167

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • TANZ AUS DEM 'NARRENSPIEGEL' VON LABAN ('NARRENSPIEGEL' DANCE FROM LABAN) - rectoFIGUREN SKIZZE (FIGURE STUDIES) - verso
  • stamped with the Nachlass mark on the verso
  • watercolour and gouache on paper -recto
    watercolour on paper - verso
  • 43 by 29.5cm., 17 by 11 5/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Galerie Neher, Essen
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 9th February 1989

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, E. L. Kirchner, 1985, no. 96, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, sandwiched between two overmounts. The recto is in very good condition. The verso has areas of paper skinning to all four corners, probably where it was previously attached to a mount. Apart from some scattered surface dirt, the verso is in good condition. Colours: The colours are much more vibrant in the original.
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