Sale: 459 / Modern Art I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 637

 

637
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Stafelalp mit Tinzenhorn, 1917.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,450
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,125

(incl. surcharge)
Stafelalp mit Tinzenhorn. 1917.
Woodcut.
Dube H 301. Gercken 854 1 (of 2). Signed and inscribed "Handdruck". One of 19 copies in this color variant mentioned by Gercken. On blotting paper. 33.7 x 55 cm (13.2 x 21.6 in). Sheet: 42 x 56 cm ( 16,5 x 22 in).
11 of these copies in the color variant mentioned above are inpossession of museums all over the worls, among them the Kupferstich Kabinett/Berlin, Albertina/Vienna or the Museum of Fine Arts /Boston. (see Gerken, E.L.Kirchner, 2015, p. 20) [EH].

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Günther Gercken for his kind support in cataloging this lot .

PROVENANCE: Collection Heinrich Neuerburg (with the blindstamp (L.1344a)).

"It is quite remarkable to see that the 'Davos style' showed instantly, it was unmistakably different from the last Berlin or the Königstein woodcuts"
E.W.Kornfeld, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Nachzeichnung seines Lebens, 1979, p. 96




637
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Stafelalp mit Tinzenhorn, 1917.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,450
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,125

(incl. surcharge)