Sale: 517 / Modern Art II, June 18. 2021 in Munich Lot 129

 

129
Erich Heckel
Die Tanzenden, 1910.
Colored chalk drawing and India ink,
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)
Die Tanzenden. 1910.
Colored chalk drawing and India ink,.
Verso signed and inscribed with a greeting by Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. On a blank postcard. 9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in), the full sheet.
Postcard from Dresden to Minya Diez-Dührkoop. Postage stamp dated November 2, (19)10:
" Sehr verehrte Frau, für Ihre Grüsse vielen Dank! Nach den Erlebnissen in Hamburg wirkt Dresden reichlich zahm! Ihr Erich Heckel.
Ist ein verdammtes Nest. Hoffe bald mal zu arbeiten. Herzliche Grüsse Ihr EL Kirchner".
• From the important "Brücke" era.
• Signed by Heckel and Kirchner.
• Dance offers the artists of the "Brücke" the perfect motif for an immediate and unadulterated expression
.

The work is registered 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: Collection Minya Diez-Dührkoop, Hamburg.
Sotheby' s Munich, October 28, 1987, lot 58
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.




129
Erich Heckel
Die Tanzenden, 1910.
Colored chalk drawing and India ink,
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 52,500 / $ 56,700

(incl. surcharge)