Lot 78: 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.

Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

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

Provenance 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)."