Lot 392
  • 392

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
  • Früchtestillleben (Still Life with Fruit)
  • signed S Rottluff (upper left)
  • gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper
  • 50 by 69.1cm., 19 3/4 by 27 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1958

Literature

Gerhard Wietek, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein, Neumunster, 1984, p. 105

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and taped to the overmount along all four edges. The sheet is time-stained and there is some faint mount staining visible along the upper edge. There are a few, very minor flecks of paint loss in places. This work is good overall condition.
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