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ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)

Lot 34
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 34 | ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)
Nacktes Mädchen im Schilf (Fränzi) (recto); Frau und Mädchen nackt im Schnee (verso)
oil on canvas
31 ½ x 27 ½ in. (80 x 70 cm.)
Painted in 1911 (recto); Painted in 1921-1923 (verso)




Provenance

The artist’s estate, Davos.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach & Bern.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in 2000.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

Letter from Kirchner to Carl Hagemann, 15 May 1927.
D. E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, 1968, nos. 671 & 671v, pp. 363 & 423 (verso illustrated as 'recto' p. 363; recto illustrated as 'verso' p. 423 and catalogued with estate stamp ‘KN-Da/Bf 5’, removed after 1968).
H. Delfs, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Der gesamte Briefwechsel, vol. 2, Briefe von 1924-1929, Zurich, 2010, letter no. 1849, pp. 1150-1151.



Exhibited

(probably) Winterthur, Kunstverein, Gemälde-Ausstellung von E.L. Kirchner, June – July 1924, no. 31, p. 32 (titled ‘Frau und Mädchen’).
(probably) Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, November 1926, no. 10 (titled ‘Frau und Tochter’ and dated ‘1922’).
(probably) Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und andere, May 1927, no. 31, p. 2 (titled ‘Frau und Mädchen’).
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Meisterwerke des deutschen Expressionismus, March – May 1960, no. 44 (titled ‘Nackte Frau und Mädchen mit Blumen im Schnee’ and dated ‘1920-1922’); this exhibition later travelled to Hanover, Kunstverein, May – June 1960; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, July – September 1960; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, September – November 1960; and Zurich, Kunsthaus, May – June 1961.
Campione d’Italia, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst IV, 1967, no. 75, p. 97 (verso illustrated; verso titled ‘Nackte Frau und Mädchen mit Blumen im Schnee’ and dated ‘circa 1921’).
Bern, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, zum 120. Geburtstag, September – December 2000, no. 10, pp. 16 & 17 (recto and verso illustrated).
Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Der doppelte Kirchner, Die zwei Seiten der Leinwand, February – May 2015, no. D104, p. 165 (recto and verso illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Davos, Kirchner Museum, June – November 2015.
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