Sale: 611 / Day Sale, Dec. 05. 2026 in Munich → Lot 119000482
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119000482
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Dodo mit japanischem Schirm, 1909.
Lithograph in colors. Color print made from the...
Estimate:
€ 200,000 - 250,000
$ 224,000 - 280,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
119000482
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Dodo mit japanischem Schirm, 1909.
Lithograph in colors. Color print made from the...
Estimate:
€ 200,000 - 250,000
$ 224,000 - 280,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Dodo mit japanischem Schirm. 1909.
Lithograph in colors. Color print made from the same stone in five passes: black, gray-blue, red, turquoise, and yellow.
Signed and inscribed “Handdruck”. One of only six known copies of this color lithograph and one of only two known copies in this color combination. The individual primary colors are tinted differently, so that all copies differ from one another. 38.1 x 32.4 cm (15 x 12.7 in). Sheet: 41,1 x 34,4 cm (16,1 x 13,5 in).
[CH].
• A rare print from the golden age of the “Brücke” in Dresden: One of only six known copies of this color lithograph.
• Hand-printed by the artist.
• Doris Große, affectionately called “Dodo”, was E. L. Kirchner’s lover and favorite model in Dresden.
• To date, only two other copies of this rare print have been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Kirchner also used this striking motif, with slight variations, in the paintings created around the same time, “Girl Under a Japanese Umbrella” (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen) and “Girl Under a Parasol” (whereabouts unknown).
PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2013, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg).
In the family’s possession ever since.
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 2 (1909–1911), Bern 2013, CR no. 387 b (of c, with illu., different copy).
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, WVZ No. L 135.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (through 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, CR no. L 83.
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Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1960 (with illustration, different copy).
Lothar Grisebach, E. L. Kirchner’s Davoser Tagebuch. Eine Darstellung des Malers und eine Sammlung seiner Schriften, Cologne 1968.
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979/1980, Berlin 1979 (with ill., different copy).
Magdalena M. Moeller, Foreword, in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik, Stuttgart 1990, p. 73 (with ill., different copy).
Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Seine Frauen, seine Modelle, seine Bilder, Munich 1990.
Lucius Grisebach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938, Cologne 1999, p. 36 (with ill., different copy).
Christie’s, London, German and Austrian Art Auction, Oct. 11, 2001, lot 27 (with ill.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Modern Art Auction, June 5, 2013, lot 50 (with illustration).
Günther Gercken, in: Exhibition catalog Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke Museum Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Kunstsammlungen Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Munich 2008, cat. nos. 119–121 (with ill., different copy).
“The best way to get to know an artist is through his prints.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner under the pseudonym Louis de Marsalle, Über Kirchners Graphik, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke Museum Berlin / Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum Bremen, Munich 2008, p. 8.
1880 - 1938
Dodo mit japanischem Schirm. 1909.
Lithograph in colors. Color print made from the same stone in five passes: black, gray-blue, red, turquoise, and yellow.
Signed and inscribed “Handdruck”. One of only six known copies of this color lithograph and one of only two known copies in this color combination. The individual primary colors are tinted differently, so that all copies differ from one another. 38.1 x 32.4 cm (15 x 12.7 in). Sheet: 41,1 x 34,4 cm (16,1 x 13,5 in).
[CH].
• A rare print from the golden age of the “Brücke” in Dresden: One of only six known copies of this color lithograph.
• Hand-printed by the artist.
• Doris Große, affectionately called “Dodo”, was E. L. Kirchner’s lover and favorite model in Dresden.
• To date, only two other copies of this rare print have been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Kirchner also used this striking motif, with slight variations, in the paintings created around the same time, “Girl Under a Japanese Umbrella” (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen) and “Girl Under a Parasol” (whereabouts unknown).
PROVENANCE: Private collection, USA.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2013, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg).
In the family’s possession ever since.
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 2 (1909–1911), Bern 2013, CR no. 387 b (of c, with illu., different copy).
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, WVZ No. L 135.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (through 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, CR no. L 83.
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Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1960 (with illustration, different copy).
Lothar Grisebach, E. L. Kirchner’s Davoser Tagebuch. Eine Darstellung des Malers und eine Sammlung seiner Schriften, Cologne 1968.
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979/1980, Berlin 1979 (with ill., different copy).
Magdalena M. Moeller, Foreword, in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik, Stuttgart 1990, p. 73 (with ill., different copy).
Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Seine Frauen, seine Modelle, seine Bilder, Munich 1990.
Lucius Grisebach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880–1938, Cologne 1999, p. 36 (with ill., different copy).
Christie’s, London, German and Austrian Art Auction, Oct. 11, 2001, lot 27 (with ill.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Modern Art Auction, June 5, 2013, lot 50 (with illustration).
Günther Gercken, in: Exhibition catalog Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke Museum Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Kunstsammlungen Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Munich 2008, cat. nos. 119–121 (with ill., different copy).
“The best way to get to know an artist is through his prints.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner under the pseudonym Louis de Marsalle, Über Kirchners Graphik, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke Museum Berlin / Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum Bremen, Munich 2008, p. 8.
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