Lot 56 | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Im Varieté

KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos


Title: Im Varieté.
Date: ca. 1912.
Technique: Pencil on paper.
Measurement: 21 x 16cm.
Notation: Estate stamp and dated verso: Nachlass E.L. Kirchner 1912. Stamp monogrammed by Robert Norbert Ketterer: R.N.K.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Condition:
Sheet minimally discoloured. Small crease in lower left corner. In the centre of the right margin brownish paint spot. Verso slight staining. Remains of an old mounting in upper corners. Otherwise very good condition.

The drawing was taken from the sketch book 32.

Provenance:
- Collection/estate Lise Gujer, Davos-Sertig
- Kornfeld & Klipstein Bern, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Collection Lise Gujer, auction 15th June 1968
- Graphisches Kabinett Wolfgang Werner, Bremen
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Graphisches Kabinett Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1980

Literature:
- Exhib. Cat. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, Graphisches Kabinett Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1980, cat. no. 22, ill,
- Cf. Presler/Gerd: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Werkverzeichnis der Skizzenbücher, Karlsruhe/Davos 1996, p. 226
- Cf. Dube, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, Vol. I, Munich 1991 (3rd ed.), cat. rais. no. H 196

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler for his scientific advice.