Drei Badende. 1923.
Watercolor over black chalk.
Signed and dated lower left, titled lower right. On laid paper (with watermark "GF Drey Könige"). 47 x 38,7 cm (18,5 x 15,2 in). The full sheet.
Heckel used the motif again in 1957 for a lithograph (Dube 367).

We are grateful to Renate Ebner and Hans Geissler, estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance, for their kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Riemenschneider, Hamburg (1978 acquired from artist's estate).
Private collection Northern Germany.