WILHELM LEMBRUCK (1881-1919), Versuchung (Temptation)

WILHELM LEMBRUCK (1881-1919)
Versuchung (Temptation)
drypoint with traces of pen and ink, 1914, on laid Arches paper, signed and titled in pencil, inscribedf 1. Probedruck, the first trial proof, with the contour of a raised knee at right and other touches added in pen and ink, a very fine impression of the first state (of two), printed with much burr and a rich and varied plate tone, one of a very small number of lifetime impressions
Plate 238 x 176 mm.
Sheet 440 x 310 mm.

Collection of the artist.
Israel Ber Neumann (1887-1961), Skole (Austria-Hungary), Berlin, New York; acquired directly from the artist; his posthumous sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 24 May 1962, lot 152 (CHF 2,700) (this impression cited by Petermann).

Petermann 92
I. B. Neumanns Bilderhefte, No. 5, 1922, p. 80 (this impression illustrated).

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In his census, Petermann records the present impression of the first state only, and two posthumous impressions of the second state, with the estate stamp or the signature of the artist's widow Anita Lehmbruck.

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