Sale: 551 / Collection Hermann Gerlinger: woodcuts, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 533

 

533
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Doppelseitiger Holzstock: Liegendes Mädchen. Akt mit Obstschale, 1910.
LimePrintwood
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,500
Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820

(incl. surcharge)
Doppelseitiger Holzstock: Liegendes Mädchen. Akt mit Obstschale. 1910 and 1911.
LimePrintwood.
Side a): Schapire H 39. Side b): Not in Schapire. Gerlinger H 11-1. 27.8 x 33.5 cm (10.9 x 13.1 in).
[KT].
• This work offers fascinating insight into the artist's process of creation.
• A vital part of Schmidt-Rottluff's significant contribution to modern print art.
• Most of the wooden blocks were handed over to the Brücke-Museum in Berlin shortly before the artist died.
• Wooden blocks by the artist are very rare on the art market (source: artprice.com).
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The sheet is registered in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Barbara Wentzel, Stuttgart (presumably in 1975 inherited from Prof. Dr. Hans Wentzel).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1989).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 223, SHG no. 296 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 50, SHG no. 74 (with illu.).




533
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Doppelseitiger Holzstock: Liegendes Mädchen. Akt mit Obstschale, 1910.
LimePrintwood
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,500
Sold:
€ 76,200 / $ 83,820

(incl. surcharge)