Lot 223
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KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF | Mysteriöse Blüte I (Mysterious Flower I)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mysteriöse Blüte I (Mysterious Flower I)
  • signed SRottluff (lower right); stamped with the Nachlass mark on the verso
  • brush and ink, watercolour and coloured crayon on paper
  • 49.5 by 69.5cm., 19 1/2 by 27 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1968.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung, Berlin
Galerie Neher, Essen (acquired by 1987)
Private Collection, Germany
Galerie Am Brucher-Kotten, Haan
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1988)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Essen, Galerie Neher, Blickpunkte Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert bis 1950, 1987, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The edges of the sheet are deckled. There is a flattened crease running horizontally from the upper part of the right edge (measuring approx 1cm.) which has slightly discoloured. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is registered in the archives of the Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation.