Bidspirit auction | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Absaloms Tod

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Absaloms Tod - KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG 1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos Title: Absaloms Tod. Date: 1918. Technique: Woodcut on Japan. Depiction Size: 38 x 40cm. Sheet Size: 44,5 x 55,5cm. Notation: Illegible inscription to the left and right below the drawing. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Provenance: - Galerie Klihm, Munich - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1965) Exhibitions: - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, Vol. II - Illustrations, Munich 1991 (3rd edition), cat. rais. no. 364, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 55, fig. - Outstanding example of an expressionist woodcut that reflects Kirchner's existential crisis during the First World War - Kirchner uses the tragedy of King David's son from the Old Testament as a modern symbol for his inner conflict - Exemplary work that contributed to Kirchner's great influence on the revival of the woodcut in art Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Germany: 36,97 Euro plus 7,03 Euro VAT EU: 58,82 Euro plus 11,18 Euro VAT Worldwide: 100,84 Euro plus 19,16 Euro VAT additional shipping insurance up to total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: max. 41.65 Euro over a total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: 1.8 o/oo USA by individual arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Germany Die Brücke Modern Art Prints 1910s Framed Death Print Woodcut