Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Selbstbildnis mit Pfeife (Self-Portrait with a Pipe)
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Selbstbildnis mit Pfeife (Self-Portrait with a Pipe)
oil on canvas
52.5 by 42.8cm., 20⅝ by 16⅞in.
Painted in 1907.
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恩斯特・路德維格・基希納
1880 - 1938年
《叼煙斗的自畫像》
油彩畫布
52.5 x 42.8 公分；20 ⅝ x 16 ⅞ 英寸
1907年作
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Berlin
Hugo Simon, Berlin, Paris & Rio de Janeiro (acquired by 1931)
Fine Art Associates (Otto Gerson), New York (acquired by 1958)
Anne Burnett Tandy, Fort Worth (acquired by 1968. Sold by her estate: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5th November 1981, lot 213)
Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owner
This lot is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Hugo Simon.
Peter Selz, 'Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier in Relation to Earlier Self-Portraits', in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 1957, vol. XIV, no. 2, illustrated p. 92 (as dating from 1904 and with incorrect provenance)
Peter Selz, German Expressionist Painting, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1957, no. 22, illustrated p. 73 (as dating from 1904 and with incorrect provenance)
Donald E. Gordon, 'Kirchner in Dresden', in Art Bulletin, 1966, vol. XLVII, no. 3/4, mentioned pp. 341 & 346
Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mit einem kritischen Katalog sämtlicher Gemälde, Munich, 1968, no. 24, illustrated pl. 6 & p. 277
Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke, Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin, 1984, mentioned p. 405
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Von Jena nach Davos, Ausstellung zum 90. Gründungsjubiläum des Jenaer Kunstvereins (exhibition catalogue), Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena, 1993, p. 51
Magdalena Moeller (ed.), Die 'Brücke', Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Munich, 1995, illustrated p. 16
Die Expressionisten, Vom Aufbruch bis zur Verfemung (exhibition catalogue), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1996, illustrated p. 53
Making Van Gogh, A German Love Story (exhibition catalogue), Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 2019, no. 13, illustrated in colour p. 121
Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Thirtieth International Exhibition of Paintings, 1931, no. 356
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, 1952, no. 15 (with inverted dimensions)
Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 1958-59 (not listed in the catalogue)
Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from Previous Internationals, 1896-1955, 1958-59, no. 59, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1905)
New York, Neue Galerie & Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent Van Gogh and Expressionism, 2007, no. 72, illustrated in colour in the catalogue