Zwei Akte. Um 1908.
Color Chalks and watercolor.
Upper left signed and dated "02-03". On brownish wove paper. 33.4 x 43.2 cm (13.1 x 17 in), size of sheet.
With the black chalk drawing "Kind mit angezogenen Beinen", around 1910, on the reverse. [CH].
• Intimate studio drawing from the sought-after Dresden "Brücke" days.
• Executed on both sides: with a nude chalk drawing on the reverse.
• From the acclaimed Serge Sabarsky Collection.
• The Dresden studio was not just a place where the "Brücke" artists worked and lived, it was also a meeting point for female amateur models.
• Accordingly, the female nude was among the most important motifs for E. L. Kirchner and the other "Brücke" artists in those years.

The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Lafayette Parke Gallery, New York.
Serge Sabarsky Collection (1912-1996), New York (acquired from the above in 1986).
Serge Sabarsky Estate, New York (1996).
Vally Sabarsky Collection (1909-2002), New York.
Vally Sabarsky Foundation, New York.

EXHIBITION: Frühjahr 1987, Galerie Ilse Schweinsteiger, Munich 1987, cat. no. 62 (with illu.).
Naked Truth. Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury (Vermont), September 18 - December 13, 2015, p. 96, cat. no. 29 (with color illu., p. 97).

LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 214th auction, Modern Art, June 2 - June 4, 1976, lot 788 (with illu.).
Christie's, Amsterdam, An Important Collection of Modern Pictures, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, March 19, 1985, lot 670 (with illu.).