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Auction Closed

September 17, 08:12 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Hannah Höch

1889 - 1978


Priesterin 

signed with the initials H.H. (lower right)

collage with gold and wash mounted on card

sheet: 32.7 by 24 cm. 12⅞ by 9½ in.

image: 30.7 by 21.5 cm. 12 by 8½ in.

Executed in 1930-34.


Dr. Ralf Burmeister of the Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Leitung Künstler-Archive und Bibliothek has confirmed the authenticity of this work.


Marlborough Gallery, New York (on consignment from the artist from 29 September 1969)

Timothy Baum, New York (acquired from the above on 13 March 1970)

Steven Mazoh, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1972)

Christie's, London, 29 June 1992, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

(possibly) Brno, Masaryk Student Home, Hannah Höch fotomontáž bojovná a hravá, 1934

Berlin, Amt für Kunst, Phantasie und Illustration, 1947, no. 126

Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Hannah Höch zum 75. Geburtstag. Ölbilder, Collagen, 1964-65, no. 57, p. 20, illustrated

London, Marlborough Gallery, Hannah Höch, 1966, no. 16, n.p., illustrated

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Hannah Höch: Collagen aus den Jahren 1916-1971, 1971, no. 55, p. 76, listed

Exh. Cat., Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Hannah Höch Fotomontagen Gemälde Aquarelle, 1980, p. 89

Gertrud Jula Dech, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA durch die letzte Weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands: Untersuchungen zur Fotomontage bei Hannah Höch, Münster, 1981, no. XL/3, p. XL, illustrated