Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Lot 26

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)

Milchmädchen auf dem Bergweg (Dube 335)

Closed29 March 2011

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GBP 4,375

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Milchmädchen auf dem Bergweg (Dube 335)
etching with open-bite, 1920, on stiff wove paper, a good, rich impression of Dube's second, final state, with the tonal open-bite, with wide margins, generally in good condition; with a brown crayon sketch by Kirchner of A Figure seated in a Garden, probably executed in Königstein, 1916, on the reverse
P. 254 x 201 mm., S. 389 x 317 mm.

From the artist's estate, with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel verso (R 247 IID).
Retained by the artist's family, then by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Professor Dr. Günther Gercken, Lütjensee, Germany, for his assistence in cataloguing this and the following three lots. Professor Gercken is currently preparing the new catalogue raisonné of prints by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

Günther Gercken has traced five impressions of this print, including the present one.