Sale: 466 / Modern Art II, June 07. 2018 in Munich Lot 188

 

188
André Masson
Métamorphose, 1941.
Pen and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

(incl. surcharge)
Métamorphose. 1941.
Pen and India ink drawing.
Signed and dated in lower right, titled in lower left. On wove paper. 64 x 49 cm (25.1 x 19.2 in) , size of sheet.
Verso with a customs stamp (Weidendamm / Hanover), around 1945-1949 and a stamp of the Parissian customs office at the Paris exhibition center (DOUANES PARIS EXPOSITIONS), after 1955 [CH].

PROVENANCE: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (verso with a label, here with title and stamped numbers "57446" and "13001").
Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York (verso with the gallery label, here typographically titled and with the number "4008").
Private collection, Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Idee und Wirklichkeit. Handzeichnungen und Aquarelle des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Bürgermeister-Ludwig-Reichert-Haus, Ludwigshafen, October 11 - November 1, 1970, cat. no. 114 (no illu.).
Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung eines Kielers, Kunsthalle zu Kiel und Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel, February 3 - March 3, 1974, p. 53, cat. no. 103 (no illu.).




188
André Masson
Métamorphose, 1941.
Pen and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Sold:
€ 17,500 / $ 18,900

(incl. surcharge)