Sale: 494 / Modern Art, Dec. 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 437

 

437
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ruderer, Um 1928.
Watercolor, India ink and color pen
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400

(incl. surcharge)
Ruderer. Um 1928.
Watercolor, India ink and color pen.
Signed in upper center. Verso inscribed, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. On creme board. 26.2 x 29.2 cm (10.3 x 11.4 in), the full sheet.
This watercolro was made in connection with the oil painting of the same name from 1928/29 (Gordon 916, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach).
• Fine watercolor in strong colors and with superbly nuanced brush contours.
• Of pictorial effect
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The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Munich (until 1983).
Berlin art trade(1983).
Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate.

LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfang Ketterer, Munich, auction 75, 20th Century, November 28, 1983, lot no. 669 (with full-page color illu.).




437
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ruderer, Um 1928.
Watercolor, India ink and color pen
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400

(incl. surcharge)