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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Blonder Maler Stirner

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June 9, 01:54 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1880-1938

Blonder Maler Stirner

 

stamped Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L.1570b) and inscribed with the registration no. H 408 on the reverse

woodcut printed from two blocks in rust, violet, and light and dark blues, on simili-japan paper

62,5 x 33,8 cm (image); 70,2 x 41,5 cm (sheet); 91,5 x 63 cm (framed)

Executed in 1919.

 

The present work is one of only five impressions of Gercken’s state IIIB, two of which are in museum collections. With margins of 38-50 mm.

Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Zurich

Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)

Private collection, Switzerland (by descent to the present owner)

Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners bis 1924, Euphorion Verlag, Berlin, 1926, vol. II, no. 408

Annemarie & Wolf-Dieter Dube, E.L. Kirchner, Das graphische Werk, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1967, no. 406 III, ill in b/w

Magdalena M. Moeller, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik, Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 286, no. 136 (another state illustrated)

Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke Museum (exh. cat.), Berlin, 2008, p. 33, no. 72, ill.

Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Bern, 2015, vol. IV (1917-1919), no. 1077/III. b, ill.