154 - KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG

KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG 1880 Aschaffenburg–1938 Frauenkirch/Davos Title: Absaloms Tod. Subtitle: From: Absalom. Date: 1918. Technique: Woodcut on Japan. Depiction Size: 38 x 40 cm. Sheet Size: 44.5 x 55.5 cm. Notation: Left and right below the print illegibly inscribed. Frame: Framed. This is sheet 6 of the 7-part series. Provenance: - Galerie Klihm, Munich - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1965) Exhibition: - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Das Graphische Werk, Vol. II – Illustrations, Munich 1991 (3rd ed.), cat. rais. no. 364, ill. - Exhib. cat. Von Beckmann bis Warhol, Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts - Die Sammlung Bayer, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 55, ill. - An outstanding example of an Expressionist woodcut reflecting Kirchner’s existential crisis during the First World War - Kirchner draws on the Old Testament tragedy surrounding King David’s son as a modern symbol of his inner turmoil - An exemplary work through which Kirchner exerted a major influence on the revival of the woodcut in art Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Inland: 36.97 Euro plus 7.02 Euro VAT EU: 58.82 Euro plus 11.18 Euro VAT Third country: 100.84 Euro plus 19.16 Euro VAT additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: max. 41.65 Euro over a total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: 1.8 o/oo USA by individual arrangement after the auction. #Ernst Ludwig Kirchner #Expressionism #Die Brücke #Germany #Modern Art #1910s #Prints. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V6.1) In accordance with §26 UrhG (German Copyright Act), VAN HAM is obliged to pay a statutory resale royalty on the sale proceeds of all original works of fine art and photography whose authors have not been deceased for 70 years prior to the end of the calendar year of the sale. The buyer shall contribute 1.5% of the hammer price to this fee.