Swiss Fine Art
Swiss Fine Art
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.
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