Dodo nackt am Boden sitzend. Um 1908.
Charcoal drawing on firm wove paper.
On firm brownish wove paper. 43 x 34.4 cm (16.9 x 13.5 in).
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.

PROVENANCE: From the collection of Walter Kirchner, the artist's brother /presumably with the handwritten inventory number in the lower left).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, auction 235, June 17, 2005, lot no. 63.
Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel, Hamburg.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2006).

LITERATURE: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, auction 235, June 17, 2005, lot no. 63 (illu.).

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