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César Klein

Hamburg 1876 – 1954 Pansdorf near Lübeck

”Madonna”. Circa 1917

Oil on canvas. 170 × 150 cm (66 ⅞ × 59 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: César Klein. ”Madonna”. Circa 1917.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 58,100

 

- 81,400

Sold for:

62,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

Modern Art, Friday, 03.12.2021

Information

Oil on canvas. 170 × 150 cm (66 ⅞ × 59 in.). Signed upper left: CÉSAR KLEIN. Signed on the upper stretcher bar with brush in black: CÉSAR KLEIN. There too inscribed in pen in brown on a label: N[?] 626. Fritz Gurlitt Berlin Gemälde v Cesar Klein Madon[n]a mit dem Kinde / 12.10.17 [... illegibly signed]. On the left stretcher bar a number label of the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, inscribed in pencil: 1218. Catalogue raisonné: Pfefferkorn 54. Craquelure. Framed

Paula Klein (second wife of the artist), Pansdorf near Lübeck / Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Munich / Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (loan 1981–1997) / Private Collection, Berlin / Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

XVIII. Sonderausstellung, Cesar Klein und Ludwig Meidner. Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1918, cat. no. 3 (dated "1912“) / Gedächtnisausstellung César Klein. Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, 1955, cat. no. 7 (dated "1918“) / César Klein, Karl Peter Röhl, Richard Haizmann – Sonderausstellung. Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, 1977, cat. no. 1, ill. p. 20

Theodor Däubler: César Klein. Leipzig, Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1919 (= Junge Kunst, volume 5), ill. as frontispiece / Rudolf Pfefferkorn: Cesar Klein. Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag, 1962, p. 12

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