Drei Badende. 1923.
Watercolor over black chalk.
Lower left signed and dated, lower right titled. On creme laid paper (with wateramrk "GF Drey Könige"). 47.5 x 39 cm (18.7 x 15.3 in) , the full sheet.
Heckel also used the motif in 1957 for a lithograph (Dube 367).

We are grateful to Mrs Renate Ebner M. A. and Mr Hans Geissler, estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen on lake Constance, for their kind support in cataloging this lot. The work is registered at the archive.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Riemenschneider, Hamburg (acquired from the artist's estate in 1978).
Private collection Northern Germany (until 2013).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2013).