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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Beim Lesen, 1940.
Colored chalk drawing
Starting bid: € 11,000 / $ 12,650
122
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Beim Lesen, 1940.
Colored chalk drawing
Starting bid: € 11,000 / $ 12,650
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976
Beim Lesen. Ca. 1940-1943.
Colored chalk drawing over India ink.
Barely legibly signed in the lower right. On wove paper. 25.8 x 40 cm (10.1 x 15.7 in), the full sheet. [AW].
• With concise lines, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff depicts his wife Emy reading.
• Banned from painting since 1941, he created small-format, colorful masterpieces in the seclusion of rural solitude.
• Only a few works from this period have survived; many were destroyed in 1945.
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, southern Germany.
1884 - 1976
Beim Lesen. Ca. 1940-1943.
Colored chalk drawing over India ink.
Barely legibly signed in the lower right. On wove paper. 25.8 x 40 cm (10.1 x 15.7 in), the full sheet. [AW].
• With concise lines, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff depicts his wife Emy reading.
• Banned from painting since 1941, he created small-format, colorful masterpieces in the seclusion of rural solitude.
• Only a few works from this period have survived; many were destroyed in 1945.
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, southern Germany.
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