Asta: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale del 10 giugno 2023 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 363

 

363
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Die Hembusse (Liebespaar H.), 1929/1931.
Watercolor over chalks
Stima:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Risultato:
€ 31,750 / $ 34,290

( commissione inclusa)
Die Hembusse (Liebespaar H.). 1929/1931.
Watercolor over chalks.
Lower right signed and dated "29". Upper left monogrammed and dated "31". With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "A Da/Ba 8" on the reverse. On firm paper (with watermark "SUPERBUS SIHL"). 48.8 x 37.8 cm (19.2 x 14.8 in). [JS].

• Pictorially executed watercolor in an airy expressive duct.
• The work shows the painter and organist Julius Hembus and his grilfriend. Both had posed for Kirchner on several occasions since 1925.
• In 1930 he made the painting "Der Orgelspieler von Spina" (Gordon 963).
• Since the 1960s on dispaly in many exhibitions at, among others, the grand Kirchner show at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Kunsthaus Zürich
.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (with the estate stamp on the reverse, Lugt 1570 b).
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (acquired in 1969, with the inventory number on the reverse).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Kirchner 1880-1938, Oils, Watercolors, Drawings and Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art London, June-July 1969, no. 65
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, Nationalgalerie Berlin, November 29, 1979 - January 20, 1980/ Haus der Kunst Munich, February 9 - April 13, 1980/ Museum Ludwig Cologne, April 26 - June 8, 1980/ Kunsthaus Zürich, June 20 - August 10, 1980, cat. no. 384 (with illu.).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Frauen in Kunst und Leben der "Brücke", Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, September 10 - November 5, 2000, cat. no. 60 (with illu., p. 145).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 281, SHG no. 414 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 361, SHG no. 804 (with illu.).




363
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Die Hembusse (Liebespaar H.), 1929/1931.
Watercolor over chalks
Stima:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Risultato:
€ 31,750 / $ 34,290

( commissione inclusa)