Sale: 447 / Modern Art II, June 08. 2017 in Munich Lot 29

 

29
Erich Heckel
Hockende, 1913.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640

(incl. surcharge)
Hockende. 1913.
Woodcut.
Dube H 263 I (of II B). Signed, dated "1914", titled "- Akt -" and inscribed "Holzdruck". One of the few copies before the corrections to the stripe below the chest and to the alar wing of the nose. Presumably a copy from a state with minor corrections that is not mentioned in Dube. On slightly structured laid paper (with watermark "SLG"). 41,4 30.4 cm (11.9 in). Sheet: 62,7 x 47,2 cm (24,7 x 18,6 in).
Before the edition for the portfolio "Elf Holzschnitte, 1912-1919, Erich Heckel bei J.B. Neumann", Berlin 1921. [JS].
Rare and splendid early print from before the edition.

PROVENANCE: Moderne Kunst, auction 176, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern 24 and 25 June 1981, cat. no. 301, with illu. on p. 53.
Private collection Hesse.




29
Erich Heckel
Hockende, 1913.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640

(incl. surcharge)