Tempera on canvas

70 x 87 cm / framed 84 x 100 cm
27 x 34 inch / framed 33 x 39 inch

signed and dated lower right: Heckel 59
signed, titled and dated on the reverse of the stretcher: "Heckel: ""Meer am Abend 1959""
signed and dated on the reverse of the canvas at the top right: "Heckel 1959"

- with handmade craftman's frame -

N 9575

Provenance:

Estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen

Literature:

Moeller, Magdalena M. (ed.), Erich Heckel, Der stille Expressionist, Aquarelle als Vorstudien zu Gemälden, Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2009, page 25, colour illustration number 14

Catalogue raisonné:

Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1965, catalogue raisonné number 1959/3 with illustration
Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, volume II, Hirmer Verlag, 2017, catalogue raisonné number 1959-3 with colour illustration on page 387

Exhibitions:

Baden-Baden, Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, 8th state art exhibition (with label, 1962)

Group exhibition: Nuremberg, Fränkische Galerie and Pforzheim, Kunst- und Gerwerbeverein, Erich Heckel, 1964

Group exhibition: Bonn, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Kunstverein, Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, 25th annual exhibition, 1979

Group exhibition: Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Schloss Gottorf 2010 and Berlin, Brücke-Museum 2010/11, Erich Heckel, Aufbruch und Tradition, Eine Retrospektive, catalogue no. 119 with colour illustration*

Essen, Galerie Neher, ERICH HECKEL - Expression und Empfindung, 2010, catalogue page 18 with colour illustration, page 19