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Christian Rohlfs
Drei Frauen II, Um 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,800 - 70,200
147
Christian Rohlfs
Drei Frauen II, Um 1916.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 46,800 - 70,200
Christian Rohlfs
1849 - 1938
Drei Frauen II. Um 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right. 80.2 x 60.5 cm (31.5 x 23.8 in).
With a discarded depiction in oil on the reverse. [CH].
• During World War I, the artist produced Expressionist works characterized by strong lines.
• During these years, color and its creative power became increasingly significant in the artist’s work.
• The physicality of the female figures recedes in favour of the overall color impression.
• Similar paintings are now part of major museum collections, including the Brücke Museum and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Trillhaase Collection, Königswinter.
Felicitas “Chichio” Haller Collection, née Trillhaase (1894–1955), Zurich (from the above)
Estate of Felicitas “Chichio” Haller, Zurich/Düsseldorf (until 1964, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne)
Private collection, Milan.
Private collection.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1989, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
In possession of the family ever since.
EXHIBITION: Probably: Neue deutsche Malerei, Kunsthaus Zürich, June 21–July 15, 1934, cat. no. 40 (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 573 (illustrated in black and white).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 478th Auction, Modern Art. 20th-Century Art (Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, including the estate of Chichio Haller Trillhaase, Zurich/Düsseldorf), May 26, 1964, lot 565 (illustrated in black and white, plate 7).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 202nd auction, part I, 125 ausgewählte Werke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June 23, 1989, lot 114 (with full-page color illustration, with the different title “Drei plaudernde Frauen”).
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 14.02 h +/- 20 min.
1849 - 1938
Drei Frauen II. Um 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right. 80.2 x 60.5 cm (31.5 x 23.8 in).
With a discarded depiction in oil on the reverse. [CH].
• During World War I, the artist produced Expressionist works characterized by strong lines.
• During these years, color and its creative power became increasingly significant in the artist’s work.
• The physicality of the female figures recedes in favour of the overall color impression.
• Similar paintings are now part of major museum collections, including the Brücke Museum and the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
PROVENANCE: Siegfried Trillhaase Collection, Königswinter.
Felicitas “Chichio” Haller Collection, née Trillhaase (1894–1955), Zurich (from the above)
Estate of Felicitas “Chichio” Haller, Zurich/Düsseldorf (until 1964, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne)
Private collection, Milan.
Private collection.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1989, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
In possession of the family ever since.
EXHIBITION: Probably: Neue deutsche Malerei, Kunsthaus Zürich, June 21–July 15, 1934, cat. no. 40 (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Paul Vogt, Christian Rohlfs. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Recklinghausen 1978, CR no. 573 (illustrated in black and white).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 478th Auction, Modern Art. 20th-Century Art (Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, including the estate of Chichio Haller Trillhaase, Zurich/Düsseldorf), May 26, 1964, lot 565 (illustrated in black and white, plate 7).
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 202nd auction, part I, 125 ausgewählte Werke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June 23, 1989, lot 114 (with full-page color illustration, with the different title “Drei plaudernde Frauen”).
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 14.02 h +/- 20 min.
Buyer's premium and taxation for Christian Rohlfs "Drei Frauen II"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 2,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 2,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 2,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 2,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 2,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 2,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
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