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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
(German, 1880 - 1938)
Tangotee
1919-21
Oil on canvas
27¾ x 318 inches / 70.5 x 80.4 cm
Signed upper centre: EL Kirchner; signed again, titled and
indistinctly inscribed on verso: EL Kirchner Tangothee
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (acquired from the above, 1959)
Private collection, Munich, 1962
Anon. sale: Karl & Faber, Munich, 29 November 1979, lot 1597
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above, by 1987)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Private collection (acquired from the above in March 2003)
Exhibited
St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Werke aus dem Nachlass, October - November 1950, no. 54
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Meisterwerke des deutschen Expressionismus, 20 March - 1 May 1960, no. 41, illustrated in colour,
pl. 26; this exhibition travelled to Hannover, Kunstverein, 15 May - 26 June 1960; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum,
15 July - 4 September 1960 and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 18 September - 20 November 1960 and Kunsthaus
Zürich, May - June 1961
Heidelberg, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Farbe, Form, Zeichen: Sammlung Piepenbrock,
14 July - 22 September 2002, illustrated in black and white p. 138, also illustrated in colour p. 37, pl. 20
Literature
D. E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1968,
no. 659, illustrated in black and white p. 362
Kirchner Archive, vol. III, no. 161, fig. 659, earlier state of the painting illustrated, dated 1919
W. Grohmann, E. L. Kirchner, New York, Arts, Inc., 1961, illustrated in colour p. 98, also illustrated in black and white p. 148
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