Lot 441 
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441
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Sommerblumen, 1909.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200 Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,499 (incl. surcharge)
Sommerblumen. 1909.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower right signed and dated. Verso inscribed "Sommerblumen“. On delicate J. Whatman paper (with truncated watermark). 44 x 56.1 cm (17.3 x 22 in), size of sheet.
[AM].
• Characterful early work in brilliant colors.
• From the modern art collection of Dr. Johannes Schürer.
• Expressive still life from 1909, a year of great importance for the development of Schmidt-Rottluff's watercolor technique.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Johannes Schürer, Mülheim an der Ruhr (presumably since the 1930s, probably acquired from Commeter in 1933).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Galerie Commeter Hamburg, Freiwillige Versteigerung einer Hamburgischen Sammlung nebst Beiträgen: Original Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte von Künstlern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (…), auction on May 18 and 19, 1933 (catalog no. 58), lot 366.
Watercolor and India ink.
Lower right signed and dated. Verso inscribed "Sommerblumen“. On delicate J. Whatman paper (with truncated watermark). 44 x 56.1 cm (17.3 x 22 in), size of sheet.
[AM].
• Characterful early work in brilliant colors.
• From the modern art collection of Dr. Johannes Schürer.
• Expressive still life from 1909, a year of great importance for the development of Schmidt-Rottluff's watercolor technique.
The watercolor is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Johannes Schürer, Mülheim an der Ruhr (presumably since the 1930s, probably acquired from Commeter in 1933).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Galerie Commeter Hamburg, Freiwillige Versteigerung einer Hamburgischen Sammlung nebst Beiträgen: Original Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte von Künstlern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (…), auction on May 18 and 19, 1933 (catalog no. 58), lot 366.
441
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Sommerblumen, 1909.
Watercolor and India ink
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200 Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 56,499 (incl. surcharge)
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