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Otto Freundlich

Stolp/Pomerania 1878 – 1943 Sobibor/Poland

”Komposition”. Circa 1931

Pastel on flock coated paper. 45 × 31,8 cm (17 ¾ × 12 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Otto Freundlich. ”Komposition”. Circa 1931.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 35,700

 

- 47,600

Sold for:

68,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer 2021

Sander Collection, Thursday, 10.06.2021

Information

Pastel on flock coated paper. 45 × 31,8 cm (17 ¾ × 12 ½ in.). Monogrammed lower right: OF. On the cardboard backing two labels of the exhibitions Cologne/Kiel 2000 and Cologne/Basel 2017 (see below). Catalogue raisonné: Heusinger von Waldegg 256.

August Sander, Cologne (thence by descent to the present owner)

The Cologne Progressives 1919-1933. New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, in collaboration with the Gerd Sander Gallery, New York, 1987, cat. no. 17, ill. / Otto Freundlich – Ein Wegbereiter der abstrakten Kunst. Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, and Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, 1994/95, cat. no. 38, ill. p. 139 / Zeitgenossen. August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland. Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, and Kiel, Kunsthalle, 2000, cat. no. 361, ill. p. 123 / Los progresistas de Colonia. August Sander y su círculo de amigos. 1920–1933. Valladolid, Museo de Pasión, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones, 2012/13, ill. p. 46 / Otto Freundlich. Kosmischer Kommunismus. Cologne, Museum Ludwig, and Basel, Kunstmuseum, 2017, p. 344 and ill. p. 159

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