ERNST L. KIRCHNER Badende Familie I (Nackte Menschen im Freien).
Drypoint and open-bite etching printed in brownish black on warm, cream Japan paper, 1925. 250x312 mm; 10x12 1/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3), with the additional open-bite etching in the upper and left background. Signed, titled "Nackte Menschen im Freien" and inscribed "Eigendruck" in pencil, lower margin. With the "Nachlass E. L. Kirchner" violet ink stamp annotated "R. 504. II" in ink, verso. A superb impression of this extremely scarce etching.
We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Dube 517.
