Erich Heckel (1883-1970) Mädchen am Meer (Girl beside the Sea) Woodcut, 1918, on thick, soft wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, a proof aside from the edition of 40, published in the Portfolio Elf Holzschnitte 1912 – 1919 by I.B. Neumann, Berlin, 1921 Subject: 30.3 x 22.7 cm Literature: Dube H 314; Ebner & Gabelmann 730A H The work depicts the artist’s wife Siddi. There is a related painting of the same year Mädchen am Meer (Hüneke 1918-2, ‘whereabouts unknown’)