Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hugo und zwei Frauen (Hugo and two women)
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March 5, 07:31 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Hugo und zwei Frauen (Hugo and two women)
titled Hugo und 2 Frauen (lower center); stamped with the E L Kirchner Nachlass mark (on the verso)
charcoal and watercolor on paper
14 ½ by 21 ⅞ in.
36.9 by 55.7 cm
Executed circa 1914.
This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (acquired on 15 February 1968)
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1978, lot 644
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1980, lot 686
Wilhelm Grosshennig, Dusseldorf
Christie's, New York, 19 May 1981, lot 234
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Cologne, Lempertz Contempora, no. 368, illustrated
A frequent subject in Kirchner's work, Hugo Biallowons was a dear friend of the artist who was killed in 1916 during the Battle of Verdun, the same battle which claimed the life of painter Franz Marc and countless others.
