Sale: 563 / Modern Art Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 124000916

 

124000916
Peter August Böckstiegel
Stillleben mit Mohnblumen, 1933.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 22,000 - 33,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Stillleben mit Mohnblumen. 1933.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 100.5 x 90.5 cm (39.5 x 35.6 in).
[KT].
• The large-format orchestration of the color red with all its nuances in the delicate poppy blossoms.
• Böckstiegel's work attained a new sense of harmony in the 1930s.
• The ardent admirer of Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the most important representatives of Westphalian Expressionism
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Bavaria (acquired in 1936, family-owned ever since).

EXHIBITION: Kunstausstellung Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein/Städtische Kunsthalle, Dresden, May 1936, cat no. 29: "Türkischer Mohn".

LITERATURE: David Riedel, Peter August Böckstiegel: Die Gemälde 1910-1951, Munich 2014, catalogue raisonné no. 281 (illustrated).




124000916
Peter August Böckstiegel
Stillleben mit Mohnblumen, 1933.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 22,000 - 33,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.