Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880 - 1938 Picknick der Badenden. 1909. Lithograph in colors. Color print from the same stone, made in four steps in violet, yellow, green, and blue (combined in a single process) and orange. Signed and inscribed “Handdruck.” With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number “L 133 III” on the reverse. One of only seven known copies. 51.5 x 59.2 cm (20.2 x 23.3 in). Sheet: 54,6 x 64,3 cm (21,5 x 25,3 in). [CH]. • Hand-printed by the artist. • One of Kirchner’s extremely rare large-format color prints. • Two of the six other known copies are in museum collections: the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, and the Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. • The only copy of this print to have been offered on the international auction market in the last 30 years (source: artprice.com). • Reduced, flat, and expressive forms: Around 1909, influenced in part by Henri Matisse, Kirchner developed a radical and powerful visual language. • The motif of bathers and outdoor nudes are among the primary themes of the “Brücke” artists. PROVENANCE: Galerie Clasing, Münster (presumably on consignment; stamped on the reverse). Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago. Private collection, USA. Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2014, Grisebach, Berlin). In the family’s possession ever since. EXHIBITION: Women and Modernity in and Around German Expressionism, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 24, 2000 - April 8, 2001. LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Critical Catalog of Prints, Vol. 2 (1909–1911), Bern 2013, CR no. 306 (with ill., different copy). Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, CR no. L 119. Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (through 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, CR no. L 133. - - Grisebach, Berlin, Selected Works, May 29, 2014, lot 13 (with illustration). Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 13.34 h +/- 20 min.

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