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Heinrich Zille

Radeburg 1858 – 1929 Berlin

Blinde Alte, Friedrichstrasse.

Charcoal, pen and India ink, watercolour and opaque white on paper, mounted along the corners on support cardboard (reverse of an advertisement of Rotophot Verlag, Berlin). 19,8 × 12,8 cm (7 ¾ × 5 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Heinrich Zille. Blinde Alte, Friedrichstrasse.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 5,600

 

- 7,840

Sold for:

16,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Modern Art, Friday, 02.12.2016

Information

Charcoal, pen and India ink, watercolour and opaque white on paper, mounted along the corners on support cardboard (reverse of an advertisement of Rotophot Verlag, Berlin). 19,8 × 12,8 cm (7 ¾ × 5 in.). Signed in pencil lower left: H. Zille. Beneath the drawing a label with the artist's autograph in pen and India ink: Friedrichstrasse. „– een jutes Herz hab`n de Leute bloss, wenn se besoffen sind, aba dann seh`n se mir nich.“ The support cardboard on the reverse with the estate stamp in red (Lugt 2676 b). Framed

Hans Ostwald: Das Zillebuch. Paul Franke Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 336 (literal mentioning of the caption)

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