Lot 149
  • 149

Kurt Seligmann

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Kurt Seligmann
  • Untitled
  • ink, pencil and watercolour on paper
  • 60.3 x 44.6 cm ; 23 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 21, 2000, lot 73
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue p. 32, listed p. 37
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 142

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount at two points along the upper edge. There are two tears along the lower edge, the longest of which is approx. 2 cm (neither visible when framed), there is a flattened crease along the lower left corner and some further faint creases (not visible when framed). There are small areas of studio dirt predominately along the edges. There is a small dot of paper skinning towards the lower part of the left edge. The colours are fresh and this work is in overall good condition.
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