Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000025
Raumbeispiel
126000025
Christian Rohlfs
Drei Frauen II, Um 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,000 - 69,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000025
Christian Rohlfs
Drei Frauen II, Um 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,000 - 69,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Christian Rohlfs
1849 - 1938
Drei Frauen II. Um 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right. 80.5 x 60.5 cm (31.6 x 23.8 in).
With a discarded depiction in oil on the reverse. [CH].
• During World War I, the artist produced Expressionist works characterized by strong lines.
• During these years, color and its creative power became increasingly significant in the artist’s work.
• The physicality of the female figures recedes in favour of the overall color impression.
• Similar paintings are now part of major museum collections, including the Brücke Museum and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Trillhaase Collection, Königswinter.
Felicitas “Chichio” Haller Collection, née Trillhaase (1894–1955), Zurich (from the above)
Estate of Felicitas “Chichio” Haller, Zurich/Düsseldorf (until 1964, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne)
Private collection, Milan.
Private collection.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1989, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
EXHIBITION: Probably: Neue deutsche Malerei, Kunsthaus Zürich, June 21–July 15, 1934, cat. no. 40 (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 573 (illustrated in black and white).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 478th Auction, Modern Art. 20th-Century Art (Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, including the estate of Chichio Haller Trillhaase, Zurich/Düsseldorf), May 26, 1964, lot 565 (illustrated in black and white, plate 7).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 202nd auction, part I, 125 ausgewählte Werke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June 23, 1989, lot 114 (with full-page color illustration, with the different title “Drei plaudernde Frauen”).
1849 - 1938
Drei Frauen II. Um 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right. 80.5 x 60.5 cm (31.6 x 23.8 in).
With a discarded depiction in oil on the reverse. [CH].
• During World War I, the artist produced Expressionist works characterized by strong lines.
• During these years, color and its creative power became increasingly significant in the artist’s work.
• The physicality of the female figures recedes in favour of the overall color impression.
• Similar paintings are now part of major museum collections, including the Brücke Museum and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Trillhaase Collection, Königswinter.
Felicitas “Chichio” Haller Collection, née Trillhaase (1894–1955), Zurich (from the above)
Estate of Felicitas “Chichio” Haller, Zurich/Düsseldorf (until 1964, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne)
Private collection, Milan.
Private collection.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1989, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
EXHIBITION: Probably: Neue deutsche Malerei, Kunsthaus Zürich, June 21–July 15, 1934, cat. no. 40 (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 573 (illustrated in black and white).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 478th Auction, Modern Art. 20th-Century Art (Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, including the estate of Chichio Haller Trillhaase, Zurich/Düsseldorf), May 26, 1964, lot 565 (illustrated in black and white, plate 7).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 202nd auction, part I, 125 ausgewählte Werke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June 23, 1989, lot 114 (with full-page color illustration, with the different title “Drei plaudernde Frauen”).
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