Lot 190
  • 190

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • GRABENDER BAUER (DIGGING PEASANT)
  • stamped with the Nachlass mark on the reverse

  • brush and pen and ink on card
  • 50 by 41.5cm., 19 3/4 by 16 3/8 in.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Sale: Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1968-9, lot 1320
Probably, purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owner

Exhibited

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1969, no. 110
Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1969, no. 101
Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Privatsammlung - Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Grafik, 1970, no. 40


This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archives, Wichtrach/Bern.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, hinged to the backboard at top corners on the reverse. There are a few small creases to the lower corners and a small scuff to the lower centre. Overall this work is in very good condition. Colours: Fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, although the black is a little stronger in the original.
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