Figurenskizze. 1911.
India ink drawing with color chalks.
Lower right signed and dated. On wove paper. 15 x 20.8 cm (5.9 x 8.1 in), the full sheet.
The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection as SHG 404a. [AR].

• Mural draft, presumably still made in Dresden or the very early Berlin days.
• The figure scene on a blue water evokes memories of the stays on the Moritzburg Ponds.
• From the artist's estate, for the first time on the international auctions market (source: artprice.com).

The work is registered in the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner and Mr Hans Geissler for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 2006, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Künstler der Brücke in Moritzburg. Malerei, Zeichnung, Graphik, Plastik von Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, Bleyl, Museum Schloss Moritzburg, 1995, cat. no. 101 (with color illu.).

LITERATURE: Karlheinz Gabler, Erich Heckel und sein Kreis. Dokumente, Fotos, Briefe, Schriften, Stuttgart 1983, p. 86 (with illu.).
Anita Beloubek (ed.), Expressionisten. Die Avantgarde in Deutschland 1905-1920, Berlin 1986, p. 121.
Mechthild Lucke, Andreas Hüneke, Lebensstufen. Die Wandbilder im Angermuseum zu Erfurt, 1992, p. 36.
Hanna Strzoda, Die Ateliers Ernst Ludwig Kirchners. Eine Studie zur Rezeption "primitiver" europäischer und außereuropäischer Kulturen, Petersberg 2006, p. 155 (with color illu.).
Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, volume I (1904-1918), 2017, pp. 383f. (with color illu.).

In good condition. Margins irregular and with small handling marks and kinks. All in all with isolated traces from the making.