Sale: 487 / Modern Art II, June 08. 2019 in Munich Lot 878

 

878
Karl Hofer
Mädchen mit Maske, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 55,000 / $ 59,400

(incl. surcharge)
Mädchen mit Maske. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Wohlert 2202 (A). Monogrammed and dated in upper right. 60.5 x 55 cm (23.8 x 21.6 in).

PROVENANCE: Art collection of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (verso of the frame with a plate) (1954 - 1955).
Art collection of Sender Freies Berlin, as of 2003 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (verso of the stretcher with a label) (1955 - 2007).
Private collection Saxony-Anhalt.

EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer, Galerie Bremer, Berlin 1950, no. 20.

LITERATURE: W. Grohmann, L’expressionnisme, in: Documents 1951, n. special, p. 26 (with illu.).
K. Hofer, Aus Leben und Kunst, Berlin 1952, illu. 60 (here with title: Geschwister).
O. Schroeder, Die Maske in der modernen Malerei und Graphik, dissertation at Tübingen University, 1961, p. 120.
A. Lieb, Maske oder Gesicht, Augsburg University, p. 80, illu. 67.




878
Karl Hofer
Mädchen mit Maske, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 55,000 / $ 59,400

(incl. surcharge)