Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Alfred Kubin
Kopf mit abgeschnittener Nase (Head with cut off nose)
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Alfred Kubin
1877 - 1959
Kopf mit abgeschnittener Nase (Head with Cut Off Nose)
signed Kubin (lower right), titled (lower left) and inscribed Mein Werk Abb. 30 on the verso
pen and ink, wash and spray, watercolour and coloured crayon on paper
32.8 by 25.6cm., 12⅞ by 10⅛in.
Framed: 50.9 by 42.7cm., 20 by 16¾in.
Executed circa 1904.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr. Peter Assmann.
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 12th June 2009, lot 96
Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012
Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012
Alfred Kubin, Dämonen und Nachtgesichte, Dresden, 1926, pl. 30
Winterthur, Kunnstmuseum, Alfred Kubin, 1986, no. 115, illustrated in colour in the catalogue