Das Modell

Name: HEINRICH ZILLE (1858-1929)
Brand: Das Modell
Price: 5500.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 6,875

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Closed: 12 Nov 2020

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HEINRICH ZILLE (1858-1929)

Das Modell

Price Realised GBP 6,875

Closed: 12 Nov 2020

Price Realised GBP 6,875

Closed: 12 Nov 2020

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HEINRICH ZILLE (1858-1929)
Das Modell
stamped with the Nachlass stamp 'Henrich Zille.' (Lugt 2676b; lower centre) and inscribed 'Das Modell. „Ick wer Ihn' wat husten un' eenjal for'n Hungerlohn Venus sitzen... ick verlange Üppigkeitszulage, det se't wissen!“' (along the lower edge); stamped with the Nachlass stamp 'Nachlaß Prof. Heinrich Zille' (on the reverse of the mount)
pen and ink and watercolour on paper
8¹⁄₈ x 3⁷⁄₈ in. (20.6 x 10 cm.)
Executed circa 1908

The artist's estate.
Private collection, Germany, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing is probably a preparatory study for the heliogravure of around 1908 (see Rosenbach no. 47). It is very likely that Zille would have first created a quick pencil or charcoal sketch from real life, which he would have then turned into a clean-line ink drawing with the help of transparent glassine paper, to make it suitable for the print medium. The present handcoloured and annotated sheet appears to be a transfer drawing, which the artist would have taken from the first ink drawing, perhaps to explore the effects of the text and of colour. As a preparatory work, it would never have left the artist’s study and thus became part of his estate.

The text below the image, in Berlin dialect, loosely translates as 'The Model. "I the Venus that you cough up a starvation wage for sit here and demand an opulence surcharge, just so you know!"'