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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Fränzi mit Pfeilbogen (Fränzi with Bow and Arrow)

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(1880 - 1938)


Fränzi mit Pfeilbogen (Fränzi with Bow and Arrow) 

signed E L Kirchner and dated 07 (center right); stamped with the Nachlass mark (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

27 ¾ by 31 ⅞ in.   70.5 by 81 cm. 

Executed in 1910.


This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.

Estate of the artist (until 1966)

Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano (acquired by 1967)

Serge Sabarsky, New York (acquired on 7 May 1968)

Estée and Joseph Lauder, New York (acquired from the above on 30 January 1969)

Transferred from the above to the present owner in 1973

Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, E. L. Kirchner zum fünfundzwanzigsten Todestag, 1963, pl. 19, p. 25, illustrated (titled Bogenschützin (Fränzi) and dated circa 1908)

Lugano, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunste IV, 1967, no. 66, p. 86, illustrated (dated 1909)

Lugano, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Modern Kunst V, 1968, no. 66, p. 81, illustrated (titled Fränzi mit Bogen and dated circa 1909)

South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, The German Expressionists and their Contemporaries: 50 Years of Fantasy and Frenzy, 1969-70, no. 56 (dated 1909) 

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The “Wild Beasts”: Fauvism and Its Affinities, 1976, no. 56

London, Royal Academy of Arts and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, German Art in the 20th Century, Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985, 1985-86, no. 2, p. 152, illustrated in color 

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Figures du Moderne, 1905-1914: Dresde, Munich, Berlin: L’Expressionisme en Allemagne, 1992-93, no. 44, p. 104, illustrated in color; p. 376 (titled Fränz mit Bogen and dated circa 1910) 

New York, Neue Galerie, New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940, 2004

New York, Neue Galerie, Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913, 2009

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, 1968, no. 178, p. 71; p. 291, illustrated

Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, ed. Dresdener Kunstblätter, vol. 28, no. 5, 1984, p. 148

Anne-Marie Debu-Heynig; Roman Norbert Ketterer and Wolfgang Henze, eds., Postkarten und Briefe an Erich Heckel im Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Cologne, 1984, p. 250, illustrated; p. 251 (dated 1909/11)

Exh. Cat., Museum Schloss Moritzburg, Künstler der Brücke in Moritzburg, 1995, p. 47, note 51

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Kirchner, Fränzi ante una silla tallada, 1910, 1996-97, figs. 12 and 33, illustrated; pp. 22-35

Serge Sabarsky, Ich, Serge Sabarsky, Vienna, 1997, p. 15, illustrated in color (titled Fränzi mit Puppe und Bogen and dated 1909/11)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Brücke-Museum and Frankfurt, Galerie Jahrhunderthalle, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen: die Sammlung Karlheinz Gabler, 1999-2000, pp. 22, note 61, and 23-24

Hanna Strzoda, Zur Auseinandersetzung Ernst Ludwig Kirchners mit aussereuropäischer Kunst: Die Ausgestaltung der Ateliers in Dresden und Berlin, Thesis, Otto Friedrich Universität, Bamberg, 2000, no. 102, p. 64; p. 75, illustrated

Barbara Nierhoff, Das Bild der Frau. Sexualität und Körperlichkeit in der Kunst der 'Brücke’, Dissertation, University of Essen, 2004, pp. 75 and 139, illustrated

“Art: Museums and Libraries,” The New Yorker, 26 July 2004, p. 17

Frank Kammerzell, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ägyptsches und Koptisches," jn .t dr.w, Festschrift für Friedrich Junge, 2006, p. 373

Hanna Strzoda, Die Ateliers Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—Eine Studie zur Rezeption "primitiver" europäischer und aussereuropäischer Kulturen, Petersberg, 2006, p. 124, footnote no. 941; p. 125; p. 124, illustrated; p. 158, illustrated in color

Magdalena M. Moeller, “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—Fränzi vor geschnitztem Stuhl,” Neue Forschungen und Berichte, Brücke-Archiv, vol. 23, 2008, pp. 110-11, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie, Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York, 2016-17, p. 236, illustrated in color (in installation photograph of New York, Neue Galerie, Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913, 2009)