Lot 306 | Drei Kokotten bei Nacht

KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG
1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos

Title: Drei Kokotten bei Nacht.
Date: 1914.
Technique: Etching on WJS JOYSICRAY TRADE MARK (watermark).
Depiction Size: 25 x 17cm.
Sheet Size: 39,5 x 36,5cm.
Notation: Signed.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Currently there is knowledge of only four copies of the etching. The depiction was first found in Kirchners scetch book 37, 1913, sheet 55.

Provenance:
- Dr. Andreas Sturies - Moderne Kunst & Auktionen, Düsseldorf, auc. 15.5.2004, Lot 104

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthalle Krems, 2010
- Aurel Scheibler Galerie, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Gercken, Günther: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. III, 1912-1916, no. 543-847, Bern 2015, cat. rais. no. 660.II, with ill.
- Dube, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, vol. I - Katalog, Munich 1991 (3rd ed.), cat. rais. no. 181.II
- Schoppmann, Wolfgang/Wipplinger, Hans-Peter (ed.): Lebenslust & Totentanz - Olbricht Collection, Krems 2010, p. 184 (w/o ill.)
- Moeller, Magdalena M.: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Die Straßenszenen 1913-1915, Munich 1993, no. 87, with ill.
- Presler, Gerd: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Die Skizzenbücher. "Ekstase des ersten Sehens", Karlsruhe/Davos 1996, scetch book 37-55, ill. p. 231

We thank Mr. Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler for the kind support.