Sale: 395 / Modern Art / Side lines of the German Avantgarde, Oct. 19. 2012 in Munich Lot 368

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen


368
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen, 1919.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,675
Sold:
€ 3,750 / $ 4,012

(incl. surcharge)
Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen. 1919.
Woodcut.
Schapire Nachtrag 85. Ketterer Editionsverzeichnis 173. Signed and numbered 6/90. On Japon. 39,5 x 50,2 cm (15,5 x 19,7 in). Sheet: 52 x 66,4 cm (20,5 x 26,2 in).
In a letter from 1964 Schmidt-Rottluff wrote to the publisher of the catalog raisonné Ernest Rathenau, that he had already created the woodcut in 1919, however, he never printed it. He rediscovered the printing block in 1964 and had it printed by HAP in 1974 for the first time.
Published as plate 5 from the portfolio "Anno Santo 1975", published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich in 1975 (with blindstamp). [KH].




368
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Christus (Kristus) unter den Frauen, 1919.
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 2,500 / $ 2,675
Sold:
€ 3,750 / $ 4,012

(incl. surcharge)