Lot 119
  • 119

August Macke

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • August Macke
  • Mann beim Kranich im Zoo (Man with a Crane in the Zoo)
  • pencil on paper
  • 16.9 by 9.6cm., 6 5/8 by 3 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Utermann, Dortmund
Private Collection, Dusseldorf
Thence by descent to the present owners in 2004

Literature

Ursula Heiderich, Auguste Macke, Die Skizzenbücher, Stuttgart, 1987, vol. II, no. 42a, illustrated p. 950
Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Zeichnungen, Werkverzeichnis, Stuttgart, 1993, no. 1868, illustrated p. 525

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount in all four corners and floating in the mount. The left edge is slightly unevenly cut. There are two tiny spots of foxing to the upper left quadrant. Otherwise this work is in overall very good condition.
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