154 - KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG

KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG 1880 Aschaffenburg–1938 Frauenkirch/Davos Title: The Death of Absalom. Subtitle: From: Absalom. Date: 1918. Technique: Woodcut on Japanese paper. Image Size: 38 x 40 cm. Sheet Size: 44.5 x 55.5 cm. Inscription: Illegible inscriptions on the left and right below the print. 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 Bibliography: - Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Das Graphische Werk, Vol. II – Illustrations, Munich 1991 (3rd ed.), cat. no. 364, ill. - Exhibition catalog: From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries—The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 55, ill. - An outstanding example of an Expressionist woodcut reflecting Kirchner’s existential crisis during World War I - 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: Domestic: 36.97 euros plus 7.02 euros VAT EU: 58.82 euros plus 11.18 euros VAT Third country: 100.84 euros plus 19.16 euros VAT Additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: max. 41.65 euros over a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: 1.8 per thousand 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 (Conditions of Sale §V6.1) In accordance with §26 UrhG (German Copyright Act), VAN HAM is obligated 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 toward this fee.