Sale: 522 / Modern Art II, Dec. 11. 2021 in Munich Lot 438

 

438
Hermann Scherer
Paar in der Landschaft (recto), Porträt eines Mannes mit einer Pfeife (verso), 1924.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 100,000 / $ 108,000
Sold:
€ 206,250 / $ 222,750

(incl. surcharge)
Paar in der Landschaft (recto), Porträt eines Mannes mit einer Pfeife (verso). 1924.
Oil on canvas.
Upper right signed and dated. Visible area: 117.5 x 88.5 cm (46.2 x 34.8 in).
[AM].
• Artistic document of the artist's short but intensive and inspiring friendship with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
• Impressive expressive-dynamic forms in strong primary colors.
• Key work in Scherer's expressive oeuvre.
• Exceptional amalgamation of nature and man through the cross-subject use of colors
.

This work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné compiled by Martin Schwander.

PROVENANCE: In the artist's possession.
Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos.
Private collection Switzerland.
Galerie Fischer Auktionen, Lucerne.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2009).

EXHIBITION: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Hermann Scherer, Paul Camenisch, Kunsthalle Basel, 1928, cat.-no. 20.
Hermann Scherer - Mensch, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, 2004-2005 (with the label on the stretcher).




438
Hermann Scherer
Paar in der Landschaft (recto), Porträt eines Mannes mit einer Pfeife (verso), 1924.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 100,000 / $ 108,000
Sold:
€ 206,250 / $ 222,750

(incl. surcharge)