Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 350

 

350
Karl Horst Hödicke
Die Telefonzelle, 1982.
Synthetic resin on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,910

(incl. surcharge)
Die Telefonzelle. 1982.
Synthetic resin on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 230 x 170 cm (90.5 x 66.9 in).
[AR].

• Anonymity in a night-time scene: a characteristic human study by the critical chronicler of Berlin city life.
• With his expressive-realistic painting, K. H. Hödicke is one of the most influential pioneers of post-war Berlin art.
• Exhibited in the extensive 1986 retrospective of the artist's work at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
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PROVENANCE: Gallery Gmyrek, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: K. H. Hödicke. Retrospektive, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, August 15 - September 21, 1986, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Feb. - March, 1987, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburger Kunstverein e.V., 1987, p. 19 and p. 113 ( illustrated in color, titled "Telefonzelle II", label on the reverse).




350
Karl Horst Hödicke
Die Telefonzelle, 1982.
Synthetic resin on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 41,910

(incl. surcharge)