Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Lot n° 127

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Erna Around 1922 Pen and ink drawing on paper. 20.5 x 15 cm. Framed under glass. Unsigned. - The margins somewhat thinned. Fully mounted on fine Japan. Presler Skb 89 We would like to thank Gerd Presler, Weingarten, for scientific information. Provenance Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, auction June 1961, lot 416 with illus. p. 59 ("Erna in Halbfigur", c. 1920); Christie's Amsterdam, An Important Collection of Modern Pictures, Watercolours, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, formed by the late Mr. F.J. Sandbergen, Amsterdam, auction 19.3.1985, lot 702; Private collection Netherlands Rarely executed sketchbook sheet from Sketchbook 89, densely packed with detail, showing Kirchner's partner Erna Schilling from Berlin, who had followed him to Switzerland in 1921. The interior of the "Haus in den Lärchen" above Frauenkirch/Davos, which the couple lived in until 1923, can be seen in the background. There is another portrait of Erna in the same sketchbook (cf. Presler Skb 89-41).