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    BERLIN PAINTING BY KIRCHNER AT SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, January 29th, 2020

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Akt vor dem Spiegel (Nude at the Mirror) comes up at Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art evening sale in London on February 4 with an estimate of £3-5 million. This is a powerful example of Kirchner’s painting from the time he lived in Berlin, where he moved from Dresden in 1911 together with other Die Brücke members including Erich Heckel and Max Pechstein, setting up a studio in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. With its bold colouration and avant-garde approach to a traditional subject-matter, the work embodies the values proclaimed in Die Brücke programme, penned by Kirchner in 1906: ‘With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. […] As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long established older forces”.

    ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
    AKT VOR DEM SPIEGEL (NUDE AT THE MIRROR) . UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    KIRCHNER PRINTS AND SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

    An important group of prints by German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner will come up at Sotheby’s sale of Prints and Multiples in London on September 27. The six works, which have a combined total estimate of £406,000-598,000, come to sale from a distinguished European collection.  Covering the Dresden period of Die Brücke, Kirchner’s subsequent stay in Berlin, and the years he spent living in Davos in the Swiss Alps, the collection brings together woodcuts, lithographs and an etching from key stages in the artist’s career.

    Lucy Rosenburgh, Sotheby’s Prints specialist, said: “Kirchner pushed printmaking to its limits and this stunning group is a superb showcase for his range and virtuosity.”

    Augustfeuer (£6,000-8,000)

    Augustfeuer (£6,000-8,000)

    Zwei Frauen (£100,000-150,000)

    Zwei Frauen (£100,000-150,000)

    Drei Badende, Moritzburg (£80,000-120,000)

    Drei Badende, Moritzburg (£80,000-120,000)

    Akte auf einem Teppich (£60,000-80,000.

    Akte auf einem Teppich (£60,000-80,000.

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    SELF-PORTRAIT BY EGON SCHIELE AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

    A self-portrait by Egon Schiele painted when the artist reached creative maturity in 1909 leads Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on February 2.  It is estimated at £6-8 million.  The auction includes 50 lots which trace the rich variety and breadth of revolutionary movements from the late 19th and early 20th century from Impressionism, to early Modernism, Cubism, Colourist works and Expressionism.

    Among the museum quality works on offer are Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel, one of Marc Chagall’s most romantic paintings of the 1920’s (£4.8-6.8 million); the largest of a series of four works Paul Cézanne created at the home of legendary Impressionist collector Victor Chocquet (£4.5-6.5 million); Fernand Léger’s Le moteur, 1918, (£4-6 million); a still life by Pablo Picasso from 1937, painted on the eve of Guernica (£4-6 million);  Chrysanthemum by Piet Mondrian (£1.6-2.4 million) and Bahnhof Königstein, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1916. The evening sales of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art on February 2 have a total pre-sale estimate of £87.3 million to £129.1 million.

    The auction will open a week of five Impressionist, Modern and Surreal art sales at Christie’s King Street and South Kensington with estimates from £300 to £10 million.

    EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918) Selbstbildnis mit gespreizten Fingern (£6-8 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015

    EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918) Selbstbildnis mit gespreizten Fingern (£6-8 million)
    © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE £7.2 MILLION

    PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Nature morte signed and dated ‘Picasso 25 Av 37’ (£4-6 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015

    PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
    Nature morte
    signed and dated ‘Picasso 25 Av 37’ (£4-6 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UDATE: THIS MADE £4 MILLION.

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