Sale: 468 / Modern Art I, June 09. 2018 in Munich Lot 683

 

683
Georg Kolbe
Jünglingskopf, 1915.
Stone
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)
Jünglingskopf. 1915.
Stone.
Height incl. base that forms a unit with the portrait head: 39.5 x 16 x 19.5 cm (15.5 x 6.2 x 7.6 in).

Up until today only one other portrait head from this important period of the artist's creation has been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)..

PROVENANCE: Karl Sachs, Breslau (confiscated in 1940)
Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Görlitz
Restituted to Sach's heirs, November 2000.
Private collection Switzerland.

LITERATURE: Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Georg Plastik und Zeichnungen. Munich 1922, no. 14 with illu.
Auction Sotheby's London, Impressionist & Modern Art, June 27, 2001, cat. no. 243.




683
Georg Kolbe
Jünglingskopf, 1915.
Stone
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)