Bauern, plaudernd (Dube H 449)

Details

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Bauern, plaudernd (Dube H 449)
woodcut, 1921, on simili Japan paper, signed in pencil, a rich and even inked impression of this rare print, Dube's second, final state, printed by the artist and inscribed Handdruck in pencil, dedicated Für Herrn Professor Glaser in black ink, with margins and slightly irregular sheet edges, with inky fingerprints and other studio traces in the margins, considerable off-setting verso, with margins, in very good original condition
B. 497 x 647 mm., S. 553 x 726 mm.

Provenance

Dr. Curt Glaser (1879-1943), Berlin; the forced sale of his collection, Max Perl, Berlin, 18 and 19 May 1933, lot 965 (estimate 60 M).
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (cf. L. 1606), with their acquisition stamp dated 1933 (this stamp not in Lugt), inventory number 25 in pencil; purchased at the above sale; with their de-accession stamp dated 2012 in pencil (not in Lugt).
Restituted to the heirs of Dr. Curt Glaser in 2012.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further details

For more information about the provenance of this lot see the note for lot 70.

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Lot Essay

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. Gercken records five impressions of this print, including the present one.

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