Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Lot 246

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)

Segelboote bei Fehmarn (Schiefler 213; Dube H 243)

Closed19 March 2014

Price Realised

GBP 47,500

More Information

How to sell

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Segelboote bei Fehmarn (Schiefler 213; Dube H 243)
woodcut, 1914, on soft cream wove paper, a good, strong impression, printing with much texture, in particular in the sea at left and right, Dube’s third, final state, not signed, with the artist's estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel verso (inscribed in ink H. 213 IV), with wide margins, presumably the full sheet, a deckle edge below and at left, the upper margin with a horizontal fold, a short tear at the right sheet edge at centre right, pale light-staining, some creases and stains in the margins
B. 420 x 404 mm., S. 617 x 435 mm.

Sammlung Gustav Gerold, Bonn; with his stamp verso (not in Lugt).

Specialist note

We are grateful to Professor Dr. Günther Gercken, Lütjensee, Germany, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Professor Gercken is currently preparing the new catalogue raisonné of prints by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the first volume of which has recently been published. Of all three states Gercken records a total number of 31 impressions.