Reclining woman /sick woman

Details

We would like to thank Renate Ebner, Estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, for her kind assistance in cataloguing this work. The work is registered in the estate archive.

Inscribed “Ruhendes Mädchen” by an unknown hand on the reverse.

Provenance:

Private collection, Austria;

Galerie Arnoldie-Livie, Munich, on the reverse of the frame with the label (2007);

Galerie Thomas, Munich, label on the reverse of the frame;

Private collection, Europe.

Descrizione

The sitter is presumably Siddi, Heckel’s later wife Milda Frieda Georgi, who used the artist’s name Siddi Riha as a dancer. The drawing was created as a preliminary study for the large-format painting “Leidende Frau” (cf. WVZ Hüneke 1912/1). This was on loan to the Gdansk Museum until 1933 and was burnt in January 1944 when Heckel’s Berlin studio was destroyed during the war.