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Property from an Important European Private Collection

Erich Heckel

Segelschiffe (Auf der Flensburger Förde) (Sailing Ships (On the Flensburg Fjord))

Lot Closed

April 7, 12:43 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Erich Heckel

1883 – 1970

Segelschiffe (Auf der Flensburger Förde) (Sailing Ships (On the Flensburg Fjord))

signed Erich Heckel and dated 22 on the reverse; signed Erich Heckel and dated 1922 on the stretcher

oil on canvas

83.2 by 96.3 cm., 32¾ by 38 in.

Painted in 1922.


We are thankful to Renate Ebner, Nachlass Erich Heckel, for her assistance with researching and cataloguing this work.

Dr. Edmund Pietrkowsky, Dahlem/Küsnacht (by 1928)

Collection de Beer, London

Galerie Bollag, Zurich (acquired from the above; sold: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 24th May 1955, lot 1177)

Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)

Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2nd June 1978, Lot 423

Private Collection, Stuttgart (sold: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 9th June 1983, lot 567

Private Collection, Hamburg (purchased at the above sale)

Galerie Thomas, Munich (by 1983)

Private Collection, Baden-Württemberg

Sale: Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 7th June 1996, lot 35

Private Collection, Austria (acquired in 1996)

Bequeath from above to the present owner

Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen, 1965, no. 1922-7, illustrated in the catalogue

Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, Munich, 2017, vol. II, no. 1922-18, illustrated in colour p. 81

Janina Dahlmanns, Erich Heckel Werk der Zwischenkriegsjahre 1919-1937, Hamburg, 2016, p. 106