
The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Hallesches Tor, Berlin (Halle Gate, Berlin) (recto); Zwei Badende am Strand (Two Bathers on the Beach) (verso)
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
(1880 - 1938)
Hallesches Tor, Berlin (Halle Gate, Berlin) (recto); Zwei Badende am Strand (Two Bathers on the Beach) (verso)
signed E L Kirchner. and dated 13 (lower left); dated again (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 ⅞ by 31 in. 71 by 78.8 cm.
Executed in 1913.
This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.
Dr. Victor Wallerstein, Berlin
Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Berlin (acquired by 1923)
Klaus Gebhard, Munich and Wuppertal (acquired circa 1924 and until at least 1972)
Private Collection
Christie’s, New York, 28 November 1988, lot 41 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Berlin, Brücke-Museum, Künstler der Brücke in Berlin 1908-1914, 1972, no. 2, n.p.; pl. 4, illustrated (titled Hallesches Tor)
Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg; Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang and Kassel, Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen, E. L. Kirchner, Dokumente, Fotos, Schriften, Briefe gesammelt uup ausgewählt von Karlheinz Gabler, 1980-81, p. 129, illustrated in color
Berlin, Brücke Museum, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Berlin, 2008-09, no. 92, pp. 132 and 382; p. 143, illustrated in color
Max Deri, Die Neue Malerei, Leipzig, 1921, no. 86, p. 139, illustrated; p. 140 (titled Hochbahn)
Will Grohmann, E.L. Kirchner, Stuttgart, 1958, p. 106, illustrated
Will Grohmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, New York, 1961, p. 130, illustrated
Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, 1968, no. 305, p. 89; p. 309, illustrated
Georg Reinhardt, Die frühe "Brücke"—Beiträge zur Geschichte und zum Werkder Dresdner Künstlergruppe "Brücke" der Jahre 1905 bis 1908, Dissertation, Universität Bonn, 1976, p. 171, note 323; republished in Brücke-Archiv, nos. 9-10, 1977-78 (titled Hallesches Ufer)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Kunsthaus Zürich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1979-80, p. 199
Roman Norbert Ketterer and Wolfgang Henze, eds., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Drawings and Pastels, New York, 1982, p. 237
Donald E. Gordon, Expressionism: Art and Idea, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 135 and 139, illustrated; pp. 136-37
Thomas Anz and Michael Stark, Die Modernität des Expressionismus, Stuttgart, 1994, p. 118, note 21
Lucius Grisebach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, Cologne, 1996, p. 80, illustrated in color
Magdalena M. Moeller, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Die Strassenszenen 1913-1915, Munich, 1993, pp. 37-38
Lucius Grisebach, Kirchner, Cologne, 1995, pl. 80, illustrated in color
Jürgen Döhmann and Gerd Presler, eds., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: die Skizzenbücher, “Ekstase des ersten Sehens”, Karlsruhe and Davos, 1996, pp. 94-99, note 118
Tita Hoffmeister, ed., Werke der Brücke-Künstler, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Munich, 1997, p. 167, note 11
Magdalena M. Moeller, Künstlergruppe Brücke, Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2005, pl. 54, pp. 26 and 126; p. 127, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the inside back cover
Exh. Cat., Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Der expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals grossen Privatsammlungen, 2008, p. 28, note 32, and p. 118
Exh. Cat., Davos, Kirchner Museum, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Die Skizzenbücher, 2019-20, p. 134
Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 2019-20, fig. 7, p. 68, illustrated in color; p. 69
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