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Property from an Important American Collection

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Selbstbildnis mit Pfeife (Self-Portrait with a Pipe)

Auction Closed

June 29, 07:06 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collection

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1880 - 1938

Selbstbildnis mit Pfeife (Self-Portrait with a Pipe)


oil on canvas

52.5 by 42.8cm., 20⅝ by 16⅞in.

Painted in 1907.


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重要美國收藏

恩斯特・路德維格・基希納

1880 - 1938年

《叼煙斗的自畫像》


油彩畫布

52.5 x 42.8 公分;20 ⅝ x 16 ⅞ 英寸

1907年作

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Berlin

Hugo Simon, Berlin, Paris & Rio de Janeiro (acquired by 1931)

Fine Art Associates (Otto Gerson), New York (acquired by 1958)

Anne Burnett Tandy, Fort Worth (acquired by 1968. Sold by her estate: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5th November 1981, lot 213)

Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owner


This lot is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Hugo Simon.

Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Die Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke, Feldafing, 1956, no. 156, illustrated n.p. (as dating from 1905)
Peter Selz, 'Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier in Relation to Earlier Self-Portraits', in Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 1957, vol. XIV, no. 2, illustrated p. 92 (as dating from 1904 and with incorrect provenance)
Peter Selz, German Expressionist Painting, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1957, no. 22, illustrated p. 73 (as dating from 1904 and with incorrect provenance)
Donald E. Gordon, 'Kirchner in Dresden', in Art Bulletin, 1966, vol. XLVII, no. 3/4, mentioned pp. 341 & 346
Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mit einem kritischen Katalog sämtlicher Gemälde, Munich, 1968, no. 24, illustrated pl. 6 & p. 277
Horst Jähner, Künstlergruppe Brücke, Geschichte einer Gemeinschaft und das Lebenswerk ihrer Repräsentanten, Berlin, 1984, mentioned p. 405
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Von Jena nach Davos, Ausstellung zum 90. Gründungsjubiläum des Jenaer Kunstvereins (exhibition catalogue), Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena, 1993, p. 51
Magdalena Moeller (ed.), Die 'Brücke', Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Munich, 1995, illustrated p. 16
Die Expressionisten, Vom Aufbruch bis zur Verfemung (exhibition catalogue), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1996, illustrated p. 53
Making Van Gogh, A German Love Story (exhibition catalogue), Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 2019, no. 13, illustrated in colour p. 121