BERLIN STREET FIGHT
by Anna Blume Huttenlauch
When Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s 1913 Expressionist painting,
Berliner Strassenszene (
Berlin Street Scene), hits the block at Christie’s New York on Nov. 8, 2006, it carries a presale estimate of $18 million-$25 million, an estimable sum worthy of a work that seems to epitomize the dawn of 20th-century German cosmopolitanism.
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