Erich Heckel Lot n° 124

Erich Heckel Street in Roeselare 1915 Watercolor, colored chalk and carpenter's pencil on brownish, firm paper. 43.5 x 34 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Heckel 15' in pencil lower right and titled 'Strasse in Roeselare' verso. - Preserved in fresh colors. Two narrow creases running parallel to the margins in the right margin, one of which with a short restored tear. The lower corner with a small inconspicuous puncture, the left corner with narrow paper loss. We would like to thank Renate Ebner and Hans Geissler, Estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, for kind information. The watercolor is registered in the archive. Provenance Walter Kaesbach; Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, auction May 1962, lot no. 142; Hauswedell und Nolte, Hamburg, auction June 1974, lot 568; Galerie Pels-Leusden, Kampen; Grisebach Berlin, auction 8.6.2002, lot 191; private collection Baden-Württemberg The art historian Walter Kaesbach, who owned the watercolor, was stationed with Erich Heckel in Flanders during the First World War.