Lot 3
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PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE | Cornflower

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Philipp Otto Runge
  • Cornflower
  • paper collage laid on paper
  • 31 by 20cm.,12 by 8in.

Provenance

Fritz Nathan; thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Winterthur, Kunstverein Winterthur, Pflanzenaquarelle - Pflanzenwerke 1480-1850, 1938, no. 85/86
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Die Kunst des Handelns: Meisterwerke des 14. bis 20. Jahrhunderts bei Fritz und Peter Nathan, 2005-6, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Cornelia Richter, Philipp Otto Runge. Ich weiß eine schöne Blume. Werkverzeichnis der Scherenschnitte, Munich, 1981, p. 130, no. 132, catalogued & illustrated

Condition

Scissor cut paper collage fully laid on a loose sheet of paper. There are a few, minor spots of foxing in the white flower, as visible in the catalogue illustration. The blue sheet also appears to be somewhat sunned. Otherwise, this work appears to be in good condition and is ready to hang. Presented glazed, in a narrow, white, wooden frame.
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