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Else Lasker-Schüler

Elberfeld 1869 – 1945 Jerusalem

”Jussuf spielt mit der Rose”. 1916

Coloured pencils, coloured chalk and some gold metal foil over pencil and pen and black ink on paper (from a sketch book). 20,5 × 12,2 cm (8 ⅛ × 4 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Else Lasker-Schüler. ”Jussuf spielt mit der Rose”. 1916.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 4,000

USD 3,330

 

- 4,440

Sold for:

17,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2022

Adalbert & Thilda Colsman Collection, Thursday, 02.06.2022

Information

Coloured pencils, coloured chalk and some gold metal foil over pencil and pen and black ink on paper (from a sketch book). 20,5 × 12,2 cm (8 ⅛ × 4 ¾ in.). Lower right titled in pen and black ink: Jussuf spielt mit der Rose. Catalogue raisonné: Not in the catalogue raisonné by Dick.

We would like to thank Dr. Ricarda Dick, lLiteratur- und Kunstinstitut Hombroich, for kindly confirming the authenticity of the drawing and Dr. Rainer Stamm, Quedlinburg, for the provenance and bibliographical references..

Gertrud Osthaus, Hagen (gift of the artist 1916) / Collection Adalbert and Thilda Colsman, Langenberg (thence by descent to the present owner)

Karl Jürgen Skrodzki (Bearb.): Else Lasker-Schüler. Briefe 1914–1924. Frankfurt a. M., Jüdischer Verlag, 2004, p. 115, p. 117f. / Rainer Stamm u. Gloria Köpnick: Karl Ernst und Gertrud Osthaus. Die Gründer des Folkwang-Museums und ihre Welt. Munich, C. H. Beck, 2022, p. 250

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