Lot description
Weiblicher Akt. Um 1918.
Tempera on paper.
Not in Vogt. Lower right monogrammed. On creme wove paper. 50.8 x 56.8 cm (20 x 22.3 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• Fully executed depiction in characteristic duct and a warm and earthen palette.
• Notable provenance.
• Part of a German private collection for more than 15 years.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Christian Rohlfs Archive, Osthaus Museum Hagen, on October 26, 2020. The work will be included into the archive with the registartion number "CRA 200/20".
PROVENANCE: Galerie Wilfried Utermann, Dortmund.
Private collection USA (acquired from aforemntioned in April 1985).
Art trader Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne (verso with the label).
Private collection Germany.
LITERATURE: Sotheby's, London, Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper, February 4, 2004, lot 549 (with color illu. on p. 163).