Lot 702 
702
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Sich waschender weiblicher Akt, 1913.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 25,424 (incl. surcharge)
Sich waschender weiblicher Akt. 1913.
Watercolor over chalk drawing.
Lower right signed and dated. On smooth brownish wove paper (with watermark). 34 x 42.8 cm (13.3 x 16.8 in) , the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Galerie R. Hoffmann. Hamburg.
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern 153rd auction, June 1974, lot 1130.
Private collection Brandenburg.
EXHIBITION: Brücke 1905-1913. eine Künstlergemeinschaft des Expressionismus. Museum Folkwang, Essen, October 12 to December 14, 1958, cat. no. 214.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gemälde - Aquarelle - Graphik. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, June 7 to July 5, 1964, cat. no. 50, no illu.
LITERATURE: Gunther Thiem. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen. Hanover 1963 with color illu.
"What I know about myself is that I don not follow any kind of program and that there is just the inexplicable desire to capture what I see and feel and to find a pure expression for it.“ (Schmidt-Rottluff in: "Kunst und Künstler“, Berlin XII, year 1914. Survey: "Das Neue Programm“; quote from: Günther Thiem/Armin Zweite, Karl: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, p. 85.) [CE]
Watercolor over chalk drawing.
Lower right signed and dated. On smooth brownish wove paper (with watermark). 34 x 42.8 cm (13.3 x 16.8 in) , the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Galerie R. Hoffmann. Hamburg.
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern 153rd auction, June 1974, lot 1130.
Private collection Brandenburg.
EXHIBITION: Brücke 1905-1913. eine Künstlergemeinschaft des Expressionismus. Museum Folkwang, Essen, October 12 to December 14, 1958, cat. no. 214.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Gemälde - Aquarelle - Graphik. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, June 7 to July 5, 1964, cat. no. 50, no illu.
LITERATURE: Gunther Thiem. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen. Hanover 1963 with color illu.
"What I know about myself is that I don not follow any kind of program and that there is just the inexplicable desire to capture what I see and feel and to find a pure expression for it.“ (Schmidt-Rottluff in: "Kunst und Künstler“, Berlin XII, year 1914. Survey: "Das Neue Programm“; quote from: Günther Thiem/Armin Zweite, Karl: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, p. 85.) [CE]
702
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Sich waschender weiblicher Akt, 1913.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 25,424 (incl. surcharge)
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