356
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Zwei Akte, Um 1908.
Color Chalks and watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,250
Sold:
€ 33,020 / $ 37,973

(incl. surcharge)
356
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Zwei Akte, Um 1908.
Color Chalks and watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,250
Sold:
€ 33,020 / $ 37,973

(incl. surcharge)

Zwei Akte. Um 1908.
Color Chalks and watercolor.
Upper left signed and dated "02-03". On brownish wove paper. 33.4 x 43.2 cm (13.1 x 17 in), size of sheet.
With the black chalk drawing "Kind mit angezogenen Beinen", around 1910, on the reverse. [CH].
• Intimate studio drawing from the sought-after Dresden "Brücke" days.
• Executed on both sides: with a nude chalk drawing on the reverse.
• From the acclaimed Serge Sabarsky Collection.
• The Dresden studio was not just a place where the "Brücke" artists worked and lived, it was also a meeting point for female amateur models.
• Accordingly, the female nude was among the most important motifs for E. L. Kirchner and the other "Brücke" artists in those years
.

The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Lafayette Parke Gallery, New York.
Serge Sabarsky Collection (1912-1996), New York (acquired from the above in 1986).
Serge Sabarsky Estate, New York (1996).
Vally Sabarsky Collection (1909-2002), New York.
Vally Sabarsky Foundation, New York.

EXHIBITION: Frühjahr 1987, Galerie Ilse Schweinsteiger, Munich 1987, cat. no. 62 (with illu.).
Naked Truth. Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury (Vermont), September 18 - December 13, 2015, p. 96, cat. no. 29 (with color illu., p. 97).

LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 214th auction, Modern Art, June 2 - June 4, 1976, lot 788 (with illu.).
Christie's, Amsterdam, An Important Collection of Modern Pictures, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, March 19, 1985, lot 670 (with illu.).







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