Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg 1880-1938 Frauenkirch near Davos) Woman Buttoning Her Shoe, 1912, signed and inscribed Eigendruck E L Kirchner, on the reverse dated, titled, inscribed Frau Schuh anziehend, Holzschnitt, and with the monogram stamp, woodcut on strong vellum, image size 31 x 25 cm, sheet size 52.5 x 39.4 cm, framed ÛpsÛ One of only seven known prints before the edition of 50 examples. Provenance: Kunstverein Jena, Botho-Graef-Stiftung of E. L. Kirchner 1918 – 2.8.1937, (verso with monogram stamp, Lugt 4337) Seized by the German Reich as degenerate art (EK-No. 13119) collection Emanuel Fohn (1881–1966), Rome (1939 in exchange with the above) Private collection, Southern Germany Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired in 2013) Literature: Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner: das graphische Werk, München, 1991, vol. I, no. 206 A (of B) Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Bern, 2013, vol. 3, p.36 (ill. p. 37), no. 566 A (of B) www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (EK-Nr.: 13119) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Von Jena nach Davos, Ex.-Cat. Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena, 1993/94, Leipzig 1993, p. 87 Maria Schmid, Rausch und Ernüchterung. Die Bildersammlung des Jenaer Kunstvereins – Schicksal einer Sammlung der Avantgarde im 20. Jahr-hundert, Jena/Quedlinburg 2008, p. 45, 125, cat.-no. 142