Lot 198
  • 198

Jeanne Mammen

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jeanne Mammen
  • Bierseidelbetrachtung I (THE CONTEMPLATIVE DRINKERS I)
  • signed J Mammnen (upper left)
  • watercolour and pencil on paper
  • 48 by 36cm., 18 by 14 1/8 in.

Provenance

Piccadilly Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 1977

Exhibited

Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur; Ulm, Ulmer Museum & Cottbus, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Fotografie und Plakat, Jeanne Mammen 1890-1976 – Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1997-98

Literature

Moerck, 1931, illustrated in colour p. 213
Jörn Merkert et al (eds.), Jeanne Mammen, 1890-1976, Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 1997, no. A340

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount along all four edges. The lower edge is very slightly unevenly cut and there is some extremely minor mount rubbing to parts of the very extreme edges (not visible when framed). Otherwise, this work is in overall very good condition. Colours: fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though overall slighter lighter in the original.
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