Lot 183
  • 183

ERICH HECKEL | Hügel-Landschaft (Hilly Landscape)

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Erich Heckel
  • Hügel-Landschaft (Hilly Landscape)
  • signed Heckel, dated 11 and titled (lower right)
  • gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper
  • 36.5 by 45.5cm., 14 3/8 by 17 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1911.

Provenance

Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione (acquired in 1965)
Sale: Kornfeld, Bern, June 1972, lot 385
Nierendorf Gallery, Berlin (acquired by 1973)
Sale: Grisebach, Berlin, 26th November 1993, lot 16
Antiquitäten Joachim Mayer, Sylt
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Erich Heckel - Werke der Brückezeit 1907-1917, 1957, no. 62

Condition

Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge, and floating in the mount. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there are some minor handling marks to the extreme edges. Otherwise this work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Hans Geissler at the Nachlass Erich Heckel.