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Karl Hofer

Karlsruhe 1878 – 1955 Berlin

”Harlekine”. Circa 1923

Oil on canvas. 35,5 × 28,5 cm (14 × 11 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Harlekine”. Circa 1923.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 46,500

 

- 69,800

Sold for:

156,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

Modern Art, Friday, 03.12.2021

Information

Oil on canvas. 35,5 × 28,5 cm (14 × 11 ¼ in.). Monogrammed (incised into the wet paint) upper right: CH. Titled in pencil on the upper stretcher bar on the left: Maskerade. At the bottom a label of the art dealership B. Koestler, Inh. E. Barkemeyer, Munich. Catalogue raisonné: Wohlert 546. Framed

The painting will be offered with the explicit consent of the heirs of Ismar Littmann.

Study for the large-format painting "Karneval (Die Maskerade)“ of 1923/24; see the illustration in the exhibition catalogue: Anmut, Elegie und äußerste Härte – Karl Hofer zum 50. Todestag. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 2005, p. 63..

Hugo Erfurth, Dresden (1929) / Ismar Littmann, Wrocław (at the latest 1930, inv. no. 117; pledged to the Dresden Bank, Wrocław, until 1935) / Art dealership B. Koestler, Munich (?) / Herbert Kurz, Meerane/ Wolframs-Eschenbach (1937–1967) / Private Collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired 1971 from the heirs of Herbert Kurz; thence by descent to the present owner)

Neuere Kunstwerke aus Dresdner Privatbesitz. III. Jubiläumsausstellung. Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein, 1929, cat. no. 116 ("Pierrot“)

Auction 188: Bücher des 15.–20. Jahrh., darunter Bücher aus der Bibliothek Robert Steinberg, Bielefeld. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Kunstgewerbe, Plastik. Berlin, Max Perl, 26./27.2.1935, cat. no. 2478, w. ill.

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