Modern Art Online including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
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Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Selbstbildnis des Künstlers, das Kinn in die linke Hand gestützt (Self-portrait of the Artist Resting his Chin on his Left Hand)
Lot Closed
May 4, 03:09 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Selbstbildnis des Künstlers, das Kinn in die linke Hand gestützt (Self-portrait of the Artist Resting his Chin on his Left Hand)
signed E L Kirchner and dated 29 (lower right)
pen and ink on card
26.3 by 24cm., 10⅜ by 9½in.
Framed: 41.5 by 39.2cm., 16⅜ by 15⅜in.
Executed in 1929.
This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.
Sale: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 18th-20th May 1954, lot 1212
Ms Girod, Düsseldorf
Private Collection, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above)
Dr. Dr. Kurt Wessing, Düsseldorf (a gift from the above in 1979. Sold by the Estate: Sotheby's, London, 4th February 2015, lot 366)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner