Zinnien im Krug. 1938.
Watercolor over pencil.
Signed and dated in lower right. On ingres mold-made paper (with teh watermark). 62 x 47.5 cm (24.4 x 18.7 in), the full sheet.

• The clear subject gains an interesting perspective in terms of composition and meaning through the open door in the background.
• Erich Heckel faced severe repression under the National Socialist regime.
• Almost 800 of his works were confiscated from German museums as part of the "Degenerate Art" campaign.
• In 1944, his home and studio was struck in an air raid and many of the paintings were irretrievably destroyed.
• For the first time offered on the international art market.

The work is registered in the archive of the Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance. We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner and Mr Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel Estate Hemmenhofen, for their kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Berlin (gifted from the artist, ever since family-owned).