Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 298

 

298
Karl Hofer
Frau und Schatten, 1944.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,100
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 34,775

(incl. surcharge)
Frau und Schatten. 1944.
Oil on fibreboard.
Wohlert 1778. Monogrammed (in ligature) and dated lower right, scratched into wet paint. 75 x 50 cm (29.5 x 19.6 in).

PROVENANCE: From, artist's estate (no. 473).
Galerie Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden (no. 203).
Art shop Gerd Köhrmann, estate Karl Hofer, Cologne (verso with gallery label).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (verso with gallery label).
Karl Hofer, Kunsthandlung Boisserée am Museum, Cologne, July 1957, folding leaf, no. 4.
InterZonale 1945, Kiel 1995, p. 99 color illu. 156, there with title: Schatten gegen den Mond.
Karl Hofer, 1944-1955. (Work's from the estate of the artist's wife), Galerie Raab, Berlin, November 1998, price list no. 3.
Karl Hofer. Wiedergewonnene Verluste. Bilder aus den letzten Jahren, Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, Munich 27 April - 23 June, 2001, p. 11 (with color illu.).




298
Karl Hofer
Frau und Schatten, 1944.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,100
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 34,775

(incl. surcharge)