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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Badende im Tub, Ca. 1914.
Black Chalk drawing
Post auction sale: € 25,000 / $ 29,250
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240
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Badende im Tub, Ca. 1914.
Black Chalk drawing
Post auction sale: € 25,000 / $ 29,250
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938

Badende im Tub. Ca. 1914.
Black Chalk drawing.
With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number “K Be / Bg 47” on the reverse. On laid paper (with the watermark "SLG"). 67.5 x 50.6 cm (26.5 x 19.9 in), nearly the full sheet. [CH].


• A large, elaborate drawing from the artist’s sought-after Berlin period.
• With dynamic, expressive lines, Kirchner captures the figures’ movement on paper in an immediate and unadulterated manner.
• The female nude in the studio was among the artist’s main motifs at the time.
• It also appears in the painting “Three Bathers” (1913, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) and the monumental triptych “Bathing Women” (1915/1925, Kirchner Museum, Davos, private collection, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
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This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive in Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: From the artist’s estate, Davos (1938).
Erna Schilling (1884–1945), Davos (the artist’s partner until 1945).
Kunstmuseum Basel (on deposit since 1946, along with the remainder of the artist’s estate; with the manually numbered estate stamp on the reverse).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (1954).
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
Galerie Utermann, Dortmund (acquired from the above in 2000).
Acquired by the current owner from the above in 2001.





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