Sale: 512 / Modern Art II, Dec. 12. 2020 in Munich Lot 493

 

493
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Frau Schuh zuknöpfend, 1912.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,560
Sold:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

(incl. surcharge)
Frau Schuh zuknöpfend. 1912.
Woodcut.
Dube H 206 A of B. Gercken 566 A of B. Signed and inscribed "Eigendruck". Verso with the monogram stamp. One of 7 known copies before the edition of 50. On firm wove paper. 31 x 25 cm (12.2 x 9.8 in). Sheet: 52,5 x 39 cm (20,6 x 15,3 in).
[EH].
• One of the few signed hand-made prints before the edition.
• Excellent print with all details in clear impression.
• From the collection of the Botho Graef Foundation: In 1918 Kirchner donated an extensive part of his graphic work to the Jena Art Association.
• The picture shows Erna Schilling, whom Kirchner met in Berlin in 1912
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PROVENANCE: Kunstverein Jena / Botho-Graef-Stiftung von E. L. Kirchner (1918 - August 2, 1937, verso with the monogram stamp, Lugt 4337).
State-owned (1937-1939, "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art), number 13119).
Emanuel Fohn, Rome (in an exchange with the aforementioned in 1939).
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired in 2013).

LITERATURE: www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (degenerate art list no. 13119).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Von Jena nach Davos, ex. cat. Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena, 1993/94, Leipzig 1993. p. 87.
Maria Schmid, Rausch und Ernüchterung. Die Bildersammlung des Jenaer Kunstvereins - Schicksal einer Sammlung der Avantgarde im 20. Jahrhundert, Jena/Quedlinburg 2008, p. 45, 125, cat. no. 142.
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Cie. Versteigerung, auction 235, June 17, 2005, no. 75.




493
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Frau Schuh zuknöpfend, 1912.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 7,000 / $ 7,560
Sold:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

(incl. surcharge)