LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

32.36 in. (82.20 cm.) (height) by 37.87 in. (96.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the initials and dated 'EH 10' (lower left); signed and dated 'Erich Heckel 10' (on the reverse); titled 'Badende am Waldteich' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

Frankfurt, (possibly) Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Erich Heckel, 1910.Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Erich Heckel: Gemälde, Graphik, January - February 1919.Frankfurt, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Erich Heckel, April 1919.Frankfurt, Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Erich Heckel, Otto Müller, September 1921.Berlin, Brücke Museum, Künstler der Brücke an den Moritzburger Seen 1909-1911: Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, October - December 1970.Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Erich Heckel: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Graphics, 1971; this exhibition later travelled to the Winnipeg Art Gallery; and Cambridge, MA, Busch-Reisinger Museum.Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Künstler der Brücke in der Sammlung Hagemann: Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, December 2004 - January 2005, no. 2; this exhibition later travelled to Essen, Museum Folkwang, February - May 2005.On loan to the Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2005-2014.

Literature:

H. Köhn, Erich Heckel, Berlin, 1948.P. Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen, 1965, no. 19 (illustrated).V. Billig & I. Kretschmann, Künstler der Brücke in Moritzburg: Malerei, Zeichnung, Graphik, Plastik von Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, Bleyl, Moritzburg, 1995, p. 122.H.S. Kim, Die Frauendarstellungen im Werk von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marburg, 2002, p. 79.

Provenance:

Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt.Dr Carl Hagemann, Frankfurt, by whom acquired in 1921, and thence by descent to the present owner.