Erich Heckel (1883-1970)

Schlafende

Details

Erich Heckel (1883-1970)
Schlafende
signed, dated and titled bottom left 'E Heckel 14 Schlafende.'
pen and black ink on paper
22 x 15¾in. (56 x 40cm.)
Drawn in 1914

Provenance

Robert G. Berry (gift to The Museum of Modern Art, 1975)

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Erich Heckel, Feb.-April, 1956, no. 34 (illustrated). The exhibition traveled to Hannover, Kunstverein, May-June, 1966 and Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, July, 1966.
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, 1970, no. 39
Campoine, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Erich Heckel zum 90. Gerburtstag, 1973, no. 87

Further details

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Lot Essay

The subject of this drawing is the artist's wife Siddi. There is a pencil drawing of a house in a landscape on the reverse.

Hans Geissler of the Nachlass Erich Heckel has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.