Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Lot n° 128

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two sleeping cats Around 1935 Bold chalk on chamois-colored smooth cardboard. 35 x 46 cm. Framed under glass. Signed 'ELKirchner' in pencil lower right in the depiction. - In good condition. With unobtrusive faint traces of rubbing and three small brownish stains in the center, the lower right corner with a short crease. We would like to thank Gerd Presler, Weingarten, for scientific information. Provenance Collection Dr. Leopold Reidemeister, Berlin; private collection Switzerland According to Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner had cats around him all his life. They were already roaming through his studio during his time in Dresden. Later, in the solitude of the house "In den Lärchen" and "Auf dem Wildboden" in the Landwasser valley near Davos, they were his companions, mysterious and ultimately untamable. Kirchner gives them names: Boby, Schacky, Flecky - and they accompany him through the hours and days of being alone: "It's very lonely here, [...] I only talk to the cat then."