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August Macke

Meschede 1887 – 1914 Perthes-lès-Hurlus

”Bildnisstudie Bernhard Koehler”. 1913

Gouache over pencil on cardboard. 31 × 25 cm (12 ¼ × 9 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: August Macke. ”Bildnisstudie Bernhard Koehler”. 1913.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 44,400

 

- 66,700

Sold for:

65,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2022

Adalbert & Thilda Colsman Collection, Thursday, 02.06.2022

Information

Gouache over pencil on cardboard. 31 × 25 cm (12 ¼ × 9 ⅞ in.). On the enclosed former cardboard backing with the estate stamp Lugt 1775b. There too inscribed by Wolfgang Macke in pen in blue: AUGUST MACKE / BILDNISSTUDIE BERNHARD KOEHLER / 1913 / (OEL AUF PAPIER) / (V. 448). Catalogue raisonné: Heiderich G 514. On the reverse: two acts, flowers, cat. Oil on cardboard (image trimmed). Minimal paint loss. Small losses to the lower left corner. Framed

Minimal paint loss. Small losses to the lower left corner

Collection Adalbert and Thilda Colsman, Langenberg (1957 at Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne, acquired, thence by descent to the present owner)

Gustav Vriesen: August Macke. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 1953, cat. no. 448; 2., considerably extended edition, 1957, cat. no. 448, ill. p. 333

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