467
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Stafelalp (Berglandschaft bei Davos mit Berghütte), Um 1923.
Colored chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 35,400 (incl. surcharge)
Stafelalp (Berglandschaft bei Davos mit Berghütte). Um 1923.
Colored chalk drawing.
Upper right with the beraly legible estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "H 298 I“. On firm wove paper. 46.2 x 58.8 cm (18.1 x 23.1 in), nearly the full sheet.
Verso: Kopf Dr. Ludwig Binswanger mit Kindern, 1918, woodcut, Gercken 900, signed and inscribed "Probedruck I“. One of 9 copies mentioned by Gercken. [AM].
• Remarkable graphic expressiveness.
• Kirchner increases the panorama's intensity through a limited palette.
• The great expressionist's mastery becomes particularly obvious in his spontaneous drawings.
This work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Private collection Berlin (March 17, 1976).
Private collection Hesse.
LITERATURE: Karl & Faber, Munich, May 23, 1969, lot 1061 (with illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 7, 1974, lot 947 (with illu.).
Colored chalk drawing.
Upper right with the beraly legible estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "H 298 I“. On firm wove paper. 46.2 x 58.8 cm (18.1 x 23.1 in), nearly the full sheet.
Verso: Kopf Dr. Ludwig Binswanger mit Kindern, 1918, woodcut, Gercken 900, signed and inscribed "Probedruck I“. One of 9 copies mentioned by Gercken. [AM].
• Remarkable graphic expressiveness.
• Kirchner increases the panorama's intensity through a limited palette.
• The great expressionist's mastery becomes particularly obvious in his spontaneous drawings.
This work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Private collection Berlin (March 17, 1976).
Private collection Hesse.
LITERATURE: Karl & Faber, Munich, May 23, 1969, lot 1061 (with illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 7, 1974, lot 947 (with illu.).
467
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Stafelalp (Berglandschaft bei Davos mit Berghütte), Um 1923.
Colored chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 23,600 Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 35,400 (incl. surcharge)
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