Karl Hofer

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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Description

Karl Hofer
MÄDCHEN MIT KOPFTUCHGIRL WITH HEADSCARF
signed twice with monogram
oil on canvas
46 by 37.5cm.
18 1/8 by 14 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin & Düsseldorf
The Detroit Institute of Arts (acquired in 1929 as a gift from the city of Detroit. Sold: Christie's, London, 7th February 2006, lot 313)
Acquired directly from the above

Exhibited

Detroit, Institute of Arts, Karl Hofer and Xaver Fuhr, 1959
Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts & Sciences, German Expressionism of the Twentieth Century, 1960, no. 20, illustrated

Literature

Galerie Flechtheim (ed.), 'Einige Museumskäufe 1928-1929', in Junge Künstler, Berlin, 1929
Franz Roh, 'Detroit', in Der Cicerone, Leipzig, vol. 21, 1929, p. 479, illustrated
Margaret Heiden, 'Neue deutsche Kunst im Detroit Inst. of Arts', in Museum der Gegenwart, 1932, vol. I, p. 16f, illustrated
Parker Lesley, 'A Landscape by Carl Hofer', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, no. 6, March 1939, p. 6 (titled Portrait Head)
'Two painters show works', in Detroit Free Press, 19th March 1939
'Hofer Landscape Gift to Museum', in The Detroit News, 19th March 1939
'Hofer's Popularity, Begun at Carnegie, Grows', in The Art Digest, vol. 13, 1st May 1939, p. 15
Edgar P. Richardson, 20th Century Painting, Detroit, 1936, p. 42 (titled Girl's Head)
Margaret Sterne, The Passionate Eye: The Life of William R. Valentiner , Detroit, 1980, p. 147
Gerhard Leistner, 'Nachgewiesene Museumsverkäufe durch die Galerie Flechtheim', in Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf, 1987, p. 133 (titled Mädchenkopf)
Karl Bernhard Wohlert & Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer. Werkverzeichnis de Gemälde, Cologne, 2008, vol. II, p. 173, no. 861, illustrated