Stehende und ruhende Kühe. Um 1917.
Colored chalk drawing.
Lower left signed. Verso inscribed "Kühe - Berg Buntstift" and with th eestate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-wriiten registration number "FS Da/Bm 2". On thin board. 35 x 50.1 cm (13.7 x 19.7 in), the full sheet.
[AW].

• Particularly fine mountain scene in Kirchner's characteristic firm line
• From the artist's estate
• Unusual close-up view.

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

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, verso with the numbered estate stamp).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (1954).
Community of Kirchner heirs, Biberach (1956).
Private collection Berlin.

EXHIBITION: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen/Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, February 15 - May 10, 2015, cat. no. 20 (with illu.).

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