11
Erich Heckel
Zwei Frauen (Two Women)
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000
$25,000
Lot Details
Woodcut, on laid paper, with full margins.
1910
I. 11 x 14 3/8 in. (27.9 x 36.5 cm)
S. 16 1/4 x 21 3/8 in. (41.3 x 54.3 cm)
S. 16 1/4 x 21 3/8 in. (41.3 x 54.3 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil, the first state (of two), before the rework on the breasts of the left woman, a rich impression of this rare state, framed.
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Catalogue Essay
In 19th-century carvings by the African Mbole tribe, solutions for dramatically outlining the facial features seem almost readymade for Heckel’s tightly contoured drawing style. The heart-shaped face, slit eyes, hourglass nose and grossly exaggerated navel are borrowed from the Mbole type: the V-like rendering of the breasts, the union of hand with thigh… Philip Larson Brücke Primitivism: The Early Figurative Woodcuts, Print Collector’s Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 3, July-August 1975, pp. 63-64.
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