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Description: Weiblicher Akt (Kniest쳌ck) signed with the initials 'CH' (lower right) oil on canvas 39 x 273/4in. (99 x 70.5cm.) Painted circa 1937 PROVENANCE Galerie Žnne Abels, Cologne. Anon. sale, Ketterer, Stuttgart, sale 21, 1955, lot 1230. Anon. sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 28 November 1961, lot 248 (illustrated in the catalogue). Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (inv. no. 450/351), acquired from the above sale. Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne. Acquired from the above by the present owner. EXHIBITION Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Deutsche Expressionisten, 1963 (illustrated in the catalogue). Vienna, Deutsche Expressionisten aus dem Kunstbesitz der Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1964, no. 106 (illustrated in the catalogue). NOTES Karl Bernhard Wohlert of the Karl-Hofer-Dokumentation has confirmed the authenticity of this painting. The work is listed in the Dokumentation as no. 1124.