$3,800,000
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Street Scene, Berlin
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Oil on canvas · 1913
Self-Portrait as a Soldier
Year: 1915
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 69.2 × 61 cm
$2,900,000
Painted after Kirchner suffered a nervous breakdown during military service in World War I, this harrowing self-portrait shows the artist in uniform, his right hand severed — an image of artistic impotence and psychological trauma.