Lot 158
  • 158

Erich Heckel

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Erich Heckel
  • Vorm Spiegel
  • Signed
  • Lithograph 
  • image: 49.5 by 38.6cm.; 9 1/2 by 15 1/4 in.
  • sheet: 64.8 by 48.9cm.; 25 1/2 by 19 5/8 in.
Lithograph, 1920, the first state (of two), signed and dated in pencil, on thin wove paper, framed

Literature

Annemarie & Wolf-Dieter Dube, Erich Heckel - Das Graphische Werk, Band II, Radierungen - Lithographien, New York, 1964, no.L265, illustrated (another example).

Condition

With wide margins, in generally good condition apart from a few repaired tears at the lower and right sheet edges (the longest measuring 7 cm and only just extending in to the image), skinning and paper thinning along the sheet edges (mostly located at the corners), pin holes at each of the sheet corners, mount-staining and pale light-staining, creasing across the lower left corner (not affecting the image), taped to the front mount along the upper sheet edges verso, remains of tape along other sheet edges verso, framed.
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