Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Negermädchen-Kopf Milly (Head of Negro Girl Milly) - image-1

Lot 317 Dα

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Negermädchen-Kopf Milly (Head of Negro Girl Milly)

Auction 997 - overview Cologne
22.05.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 32.940 € (incl. premium)

Pencil drawing with thick pencil, wiped, on fine blue tinted paper 21.7 x 28.1 cm, framed under glass. On verso in lower left corner with rectangular stamp "NACHLASS E. L. KIRCHNER" [Estate E.L. Kirchner], therein inscribed "B Dre/Ab 24 [the latter crossed out]" (correct "Ba 24") in pen and India ink. - Diagonal folds in the upper corners and with trace of adhesive tape on verso shining through at center of upper margin; a small backed marginal tear at lower right margin.

Certificate

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

Provenance

Estate of the artist; Galerie R. N. Ketterer, Campione; Galerie Theo Hill, Cologne (1966, with the gallery label on reverse); private collection Rhineland

Exhibitions

Campione 1964 (Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer), Exhibition Kirchner-Brücke, cat. 41