Badende in Wellen

Details

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Badende in Wellen
lithograph, 1913, on smooth heavy wove paper, Dube's first state (of two), a very good impression printing with much texture, gold dust printing on the black ink in the sky, stray ink in the upper margin and on the reverse, the sheet edges slightly irregular, some creasing, some skilfully repaired tears at the sheet edges, generally in very good condition, framed

Image 423 x 317 mm., Sheet 603 x 470 mm.

Literature

Schiefler 221; Dube L 232; Gercken 624

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Dr. Günther Gercken, Lütjensee, Germany, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Professor Gercken is currently preparing the new catalogue raisonné of prints by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the fourth volume of which has recently been published. Gercken considers the differences between Dube's first and second state merely as differences in the inking and printing, not as changes to the stone. He records eight impressions of this print, including the present one.

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