Sale: 409 / Modern Art and Sidelines of the German Avantgarde, Dec. 06. 2013 in Munich Lot 90

 

90
Heinrich Zille
Bertha, du bist ´ne Noble, du hast Pferd und Wagen!, 1923.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 31,720 / $ 34,257

(incl. surcharge)
Bertha, du bist ´ne Noble, du hast Pferd und Wagen!. 1923.
Gouache and Watercolor over India ink drawing.
Signed and dated lower left, lower margin titled, inscribed in image. Verso with various numbers and an adhesive label, there with typographic number "195" in red. On wove paper, laid on cardboard. 22,8 x 26,2 cm (8,9 x 10,3 in), the full sheet. [DB].

We are grateful to Detlev Rosenbach, Hanover, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Hesse.

LITERATURE: Heinrich Zille. Geschichten und Bilder, Verlag Carl Reissner, Dresden 1925, illu. (no p.).
Heinrich Zille. Berlin aus meiner Bildermappe, Gerhard Flügge/Margarete Köhler-Zille, Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1969, with fullpage illu. in colors on p. 85.
Das dicke Zille-Buch, Gerhard Flügge (publisher), Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1971 (this one 7th edition from 1982, illu. in colors on p. 377.




90
Heinrich Zille
Bertha, du bist ´ne Noble, du hast Pferd und Wagen!, 1923.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 31,720 / $ 34,257

(incl. surcharge)