Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Hockender Akt im Badetub (Bathing Nude, crouched in a Tub) - image-1

Lot 316 D

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Hockender Akt im Badetub (Bathing Nude, crouched in a Tub)

Auction 997 - overview Cologne
22.05.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 14.000 € - 16.000 €
Result: 25.620 € (incl. premium)

Pen and ink drawing on plain smooth paper 27 x 34.3 cm, framed under glass. On verso lower left corner of sheet with rectangular stamp "NACHLASS E.L. KIRCHNER" [Estate E.L. Kirchner], therein inscribed " F Dre/ Bg 59" in pen and India ink. - Overall slightly browned with faint streaks and light-stain along the edges; with a professionally closed tear in upper right corner and at lower margin respectively, the right corners of sheet restored.

Certificate

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

Provenance

Estate of the artist; Galerie Theo Hill, Cologne (1965); private collection Rhineland