Sale: 409 / Modern Art and Sidelines of the German Avantgarde, Dec. 06. 2013 in Munich Lot 322

 

322
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Porträt Nele van de Velde, 1920.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)
Porträt Nele van de Velde. 1920/1923.
Lithograph.
Dube L 411 II. Signed. Center of lower margin with inscription "II. Zustand". One of 4 copies known of so far. On yellowish wove paper. 53,3 x 31,7 cm (20,9 x 12,4 in). Sheet: 65,2 x 48,8 cm (25,7 x 19,2 in).

We are grateful to Dr. Günther Gercken, Lütjensee, for his kind expert advice. In Prof. Gercken's forthcoming catalog raisonné of graphic works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner it will be mentioned as first of two states.

PROVENANCE: Presumably Kornfeld Bern, 1958, auction 93, lot 225.
Formerly collection Felix F. Fabrizio.

In a letter to Gustav Schiefler Kirchner mentioned this portrait and dated it to 1919. However, Nele van de Velde did not visit the artist in Frauenkirch near Davos before 1920. Kirchner presumably made the portrait on spirit duplicator copy paper around that time, it seems that it was not printed at the Graphische Anstalt W. Wassermann in Baselbefore 1923. Nele van de Velde (1897-1965) was the oldest daughter of the architect Henry van de Velde. She was a painter and met Kirchner in Kreuzlingen in 1918. Since then the two had been in a close artistic connection and friendship, which is reflected by the letters "Briefen an Nele" and the painting "Nele van de Velde" (G 514). Nele, in return, documented the friendship in a series of woodcuts with text "Ein Tag bei Kirchner auf der Staffelalp" (A day with Kirchner on the Staffelalp). [CB].




322
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Porträt Nele van de Velde, 1920.
Lithograph
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)