Charcoal drawing on firm wove paper. On firm brownish wove paper. 43 x 34.4 cm.
With a drawing of the same motif and in same technique on the reverse. [JS].
- Dodo, Dorothee Grosse, was Kirchner's partner and his preferred model during the Dresden period before Kirchner relocated to Berlin in 1911. - "[...] For the sake of art, Kirchner left Doris Grosse, whom he affectionately called >Dodo<, in 1911. He never saw her again. But he could not forget her for the rest of his life.” (Gerd Presler). - Kirchner was fascinated with her even body, her dark hair and her slightly slanted eyes, which inspired him to create outstanding paintings and drawings. - A fascinating large-format testimony to Kirchner's outstanding spontaneity and mastery as a draughtsman. - Kirchner also immortalized Dodo in his famous self-portrait "Maler und Modell" (1910, Hamburger Kunsthalle) and "Dodo with a Feather Hat" (1911, Milwaukee Art Museum).
This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
LITERATURE: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, auction 235, June 17, 2005, lot no. 63 (illu.).