Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Liegender Leopard - image-1

Lot 373 Dα

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Liegender Leopard

Auction 1121 - overview Cologne
30.11.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 3.000 €
Result: 2.976 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Liegender Leopard
Presumably 1926

Pencil drawing on plain paper (sketch book sheet) 16.2 x 20.7 cm Framed under glass. Unsigned.- Inscribed and signed in pencil by Florian Karsch verso. - Mounted on support card at the upper corners verso, additionally inscribed and dated "Liegender Leopard 1927/28" with pencil in an unknown hand and transfer of the inventory number of the Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, - Overall with minimal fold and crease marks.

As Gerd Presler remarked, sketches of exotic fauna are rather rare in Kirchner's oeuvre; in this context, he referred to a sketchbook from 1926 showing depictions of elephants and suspects that the sketch at hand would most likely be considered to pertain to it (cf. Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Die Skizzenbücher, "Ekstase des ersten Sehens", monograph and catalogue raisonné, Karlsruhe/Davos 1996, p. 324).

Catalogue Raisonné

Presumably Presler Skb 130, 1926

Certificate

We would like to thank Gerd Presler, Weingarten, for kind information.

Provenance

Formerly Collection Lise Gujer; Glaerie Nierendrof, Berlin (1972); acquired there, in private possession since

Exhibitions

Berlin 1972 (Galerie Nierendorf), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, cat. no. 306 with illus.