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Property from the Collection of the Late Manfred Wandel, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen

Oskar Schlemmer

Halbfigur eines Jünglings mit Handgeste (Half Figure of a Young Boy with Hand Gesture)

Lot Closed

April 7, 12:58 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Oskar Schlemmer

1888 - 1943

Halbfigur eines Jünglings mit Handgeste (Half Figure of a Young Boy with Hand Gesture)

signed O. Schlemmer and dated 1929 (lower right)

chalk and pencil on paper

49.5 by 37 cm., 19½ by 14½ in.

Framed: 77 by 62.5 cm., 30¼ by 24¼ in.

Executed in 1929.

Albert Kämmerer, Stuttgart (acquired directly from the artist)

Manfred Wandel, Reutlingen (Stiftung für konkrete Kunst) (as a gift from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Hans Hildebrandt, Oskar Schlemmer, Munich, 1952, no. 800 or 801 (titled as Halbfigur violett I & II)

Karin von Maur, Oskar Schlemmer. Œuvrekatalog der Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle und Plastiken, Munich, 1979, no. K5, illustrated p. 348