Asta: 457 / Modern Art II del 07 dicembre 2017 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 35

 

35
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hirten und Kühe auf der Stafelalp, Um 1921.
Pen and India ink
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 5,250 / $ 5,670

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Hirten und Kühe auf der Stafelalp. Um 1921.
Pen and India ink drawing.
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and with the hand-written registration number "F Da / Bl 18". On creme paper from a sketchbook with rounded lower corners . 16.5 x 21 cm (6.4 x 8.2 in) Size of sheet.
This presumably is a sheet from the sketchbook 75 (Presler Skb 75).

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler, author if the catalog raisonné 'Skizzenbücher von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner', for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection Southern Germany.

In his years in Davos Kirchner increasingly made illustrations of rural life. The farners' routines in summer are mostly affected by their cattle. This sheet shows the Corn da Tinizong in the background, Kirchner also depicted the towering summit in his painting "Almhütte und Tinzenhorn" (Gordon 601)



35
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hirten und Kühe auf der Stafelalp, Um 1921.
Pen and India ink
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 5,250 / $ 5,670

( commissione inclusa)