Baumgruppe in Königstein. 1916.
Charcoal and color Chalks.
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handw-written registration number "FS Be/Ae 19". On firm wove paper. 31.6 x 51.5 cm (12.4 x 20.2 in), the full sheet.
Verso with full-page dawing of a group of men, charcoal and red chalks.

The work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archive Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Galerie Henze-Ketterer & Triebold, Riehen/Switzerland (acquired in 1954).
Private collection (acquired from previous owner in 2009, until 2013).
Private collection Northern Germany (since 2013).

"Kirchner always contemplated about his pictures. Perhaps this is the main reasons for his twists: the permanent examination of his own work."
(Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, director of Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2015, quote after: "Der doppelte Kirchner: Rückseitenbilder im Blick", Focus Online, 6 February 2015.)