ERICH HECKEL Lot n° 13

Erich Heckel, Lying girl with cat (Fränzi). 1909. Lithograph. Ebner/Gabelmann 368 L. Dube L 122. signed and dated. One of 3 copies known to the catalog raisonné. On wove paper (papier vélin). 27,5 x 32,9 cm (10,8 x 12,9 in). Paper: 36,6 x 45,7 cm (14,4 x 17,9 in). The sheet was probably subsequently signed and dated by Erich Heckel. Hand-titled and dated by Siddi Heckel on the lower right margin. - The only copy not owned by the museum, the two other known copies of the lithograph are in the Folkwang Museum, Essen, and in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe. - An exceptionally fine example of the immediate and spontaneous working method of the "Brücke" artists. - Closed Provenance. We would like to thank Mrs. Renate Ebner and Mr. Hans Geissler, Nachlass Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen am Bodensee, for their kind advice. PROVENANCE: Estate of the artist. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, acquired from the aforementioned in 1997). EXHIBITION: Women in the Art and Life of the "Bridge," Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Sept. 10-Nov. 5, 2000, cat. no. 42 (m. ill. p. 133). Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum Gottorf Castle, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, until 2001). The Bridge in Dresden. 1905-1911, Dresden Castle, Dresden State Art Collections, Neue Meister Gallery, Oct. 20, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002, cat. no. 176 (with illustration). Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 168, SHG no. 378 (w. ill.). Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 17.24 h +/- 20 min.