Watercolor and black chalk over pencil
Signed and dated lower right. With title (probably not by the artist) on the reverse. On paper. 29,5 x 42 cm (11,6 x 16,5 in), size of sheet

We are grateful to Hans Geißler, estate Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen Lake Constance, for his help in cataloguing this lot.

PROVENANCE: Collection Alfred Hess, Erfurt (on the reverse with the collector's stamp in green, Lugt 2796 a).
Collection Ingeborg Tremmel.
Private collection Germany.

Erich Heckel captured genre-like scenes in several works, but this watercolor is far from being a contemplative description. The few almost sketchily jotted color surfaces are an expression of Heckel's methods. The rather restrained coloring and the composition's plane and decorative arrangement call reminiscence of the works of Henri Matisse, however, without being a deliberate imitation. with this work Heckel created a new interpretation of a traditional subject. [KD].