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Wols

Berlin 1913 – 1951 Paris

”Le Placard”. Circa 1937/39

Watercolour, brush and India ink and chalk on paper. 29,8 × 37 cm (11 ¾ × 14 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Wols. ”Le Placard”. Circa 1937/39.

Estimate:

EUR 14,000

 

- 18,000

USD 15,600

 

- 20,000

Sold for:

15,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2022

Modern Art, Friday, 03.06.2022

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Watercolour, brush and India ink and chalk on paper. 29,8 × 37 cm (11 ¾ × 14 ⅝ in.). Lower right signed by another hand: WOLS. On the reverse (acc. to Rathke) presumably by Gréty Wols dated in pencil and inscribed: Paris 1937 No. 802. Catalogue raisonné: Gutbrod A-075. Accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Ewald Rathke, Frankfurt a. M., dated 14 April 2015. Slightly faded. Framed

Gréty Wols, Paris / Galerie Springer, Berlin (1957) / Private Collection, Switzerland / Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Wols. Berlin, Galerie Springer, 1957, cat.-Nr 6 (?) / Wols. Peintures et gouaches 1932–1942. Paris. Galerie Europe, 1961, cat. no. 22 / Wols. Munich, Galerie van de Loo, 1968 / Wols. Gouaches et aquarelles surréalistes. Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, 1971, cat. no. 13 / Wols. Gouaches et aquarelles surréalistes. Zurich, Galerie Kornfeld, 1973, cat. no. 9

Laszlo Glozer: Wols Photograph. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel-Verlag, 1978, p. 67, w. ill

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