Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished German Collection
Weiße Pfingstrosen (White Peonies)
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished German Collection
Erich Heckel
1883 - 1970
Weiße pfingstrosen (White Peonies)
signed Heckel and dated 45 (lower left); signed with the initials EH and dated 47 (lower right); signed Heckel and dated 47 (on the reverse)
tempera on burlap
70.6 by 60.2 cm. 27 ¾ by 23 ¾ in.
Framed: 89.5 by 80 cm. 35 ¼ by 31 ½ in.
Executed in 1947.
Galerie Ketterer, Campione (acquired by 1969)
Galerie Henze, Campione (acquired by 1987)
Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, 18 May 1994, lot 227
Private Collection, Berlin
Thence by descent to the present owner
Paul Vogt, Erich Heckel, Recklinghausen, 1965, no. 1947-1, n.p., illustrated
Andreas Hüneke, Erich Heckel, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Skulpturen, vol. II, Munich, 2017, no. 1947-1, p. 297, illustrated
Hamburg, Galerie der Jugend, Erich Heckel, Werke aus 4 Jahrzehnten, 1947, no. 27, n.p., listed (titled Pfingstrosen)
Cologne, Kunstverein, Erich Heckel, Werke aus vier Jahrzehnten, 1948, no. 27
Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Erich Heckel, 1948, no. 35
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Erich Heckel zum 90. Geburtstag, 1973, no. 12
Campione, Galleria Henze, Erich Heckel, 1979, no. 12
Campione, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst, 1981, no. 36
Campione, Galleria Henze, Erich Heckel, 1983, no. 55, p. 57, illustrated in colour