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Käthe Kollwitz

Königsberg (today Kaliningrad) 1867 – 1945 Moritzburg

„Abschied“. 1910

Charcoal and pencil on laid paper (watermark: MBM France). 63 × 48,2 cm (24 ¾ × 19 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Käthe Kollwitz. „Abschied“. 1910.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 300,000

USD 227,000

 

- 341,000

Sold for:

437,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions October 2018

Bernd Schultz Collection III, Friday, 26.10.2018

Information

Charcoal and pencil on laid paper (watermark: MBM France). 63 × 48,2 cm (24 ¾ × 19 in.). Handwritten confirmation by Hans Kollwitz, the son of the artist on the reverse: 48/50 Aus dem Nachlaß Käthe Kollwitz Hans Kollwitz Eigentum von Ottilie Kollwitz 78.. Catalogue raisonné: Nail/Timm 604. The face of the woman (self portrait) repeated again. Preliminary drawing relating to the etching: Tod, Frau und Kind. 1910 (von dem Knesebeck 108).

Estate Käthe Kollwitz / Ottilie Kollwitz, Berlin (in family collection until 1978)

Käthe Kollwitz. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1978, cat no. 18, p. 4 / Käthe Kollwitz. Die Zeichnerin. Kunstverein Hamburg, 1980, and Kunsthaus Zürich, 1981, cat. no. 60, Illustration p. 97 / Käthe Kollwitz. Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Skulpturen aus dem Besitz der Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin und anderen Sammlungen. Frankfurt a.M., Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, 1985, cat. no. 17, p. 150, with illustration

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