Sale: 530 / Evening Sale / The Hermann Gerlinger Collection, June 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 19

 

19
Erich Heckel
Kinder, 1910.
Pencil
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000

(incl. surcharge)
Kinder. 1910.
Pencil.
Lower right signed, dated and titled. On wove paper. 27.5 x 34.5 cm (10.8 x 13.5 in), size of sheet.

• Preliminary drawing for the painting of the same name.
• Intimate drawing from the studio, made in the sense of the idea to capture the surroundings spontaneously and with immediacy.
• Consistent provenance.
• For the first time on the international auction market
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The work is registered at the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Mrs. Renate Ebner and Mr. Hans Geissler for their kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector stamp, acquired directly from the above in 1991).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Frauen in Kunst und Leben der "Brücke", Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, September 10 - November 5, 2000, cat. no. 43, (with illu. on p. 130).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 79 (with illu.).
Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella. Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Sprengelmuseum Hanover, August 29, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), February 6 - May 1, 2011, cat. no. 77 (with illu. on p. 74).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Erich Heckel 1883-1970. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag des Malers, ex. cat. Städtische Galerie Würzburg, July 3 - September 11, 1983, Würzburg 1983.
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 182, SHG no. 210 (with illu.)
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 172, SHG no. 387 (with illu).




19
Erich Heckel
Kinder, 1910.
Pencil
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000

(incl. surcharge)