Lot 359
  • 359

Edgar Ende

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Edgar Ende
  • Skizze zu einem Wandgëmalde (Sketch for a Mural)
  • Signed EEnde and dated 1925 (lower right); titled (lower left)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 16 1/8 by 23 1/4 in.
  • 41 by 59 cm

Provenance

Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (acquired by 1974)
Private Collection, Maine
John Reyder, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Acquired from the above in 2005

Condition

Executed on cream wove colored paper. The sheet is mounted to the window of the mat at three places along the reverse of the top and two places along the reverse of the bottom edge. There is a light diagonal crease (approx. 10 in. long) starting at the lower left corner and finishing at the center of the composition. There is a repair to the paper (approx. 1/2 in. in diameter) in the top right corner. Some handling creasing along the left edge and in the top left corner. Minor surface dirt and a spot of foxing in the lower left corner. In overall good condition.
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