Sale: 486 / Art of the 20/21 Century III, June 08. 2019 in Munich Lot 224

 

224
Erich Heckel
Maultiere, 1909.
India Ink
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,280
Sold:
€ 3,625 / $ 3,878

(incl. surcharge)
Maultiere. 1909.
India Ink , wash, over carpenter's pencil.
Lower right signed and dated. Verso titled. On firm light gray machine-made laid paper. 34.5 x 43 cm (13.5 x 16.9 in) , size of sheet.
A slightly smaller lithograph with a similar motif was made the same year (Dube L 99). The drawing was made on the artist's journey through Italy. Just as it is the case with most of the sheets made during that journey, our drawing also has the typical vertical folding. [EH].
Made during a journey through Italy in 1909
Preliminary work for a lithograph
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Griesebach June 5, 1993, lot 292 (here titled: Drei Maultiere in karger Landschaft).




224
Erich Heckel
Maultiere, 1909.
India Ink
Estimate:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,280
Sold:
€ 3,625 / $ 3,878

(incl. surcharge)