Lot 151
  • 151

Hannah Höch

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hannah Höch
  • Abstraction
  • monogramed H.H and dated 21 (lower right)
  • ink on paper
  • 23.6 x 21.7 cm; 9 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galleria Schwarz, Milan
Sale: Sotheby's, London, December 4, 1985, lot 136
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Caracas, Museo Contemporaneo de Arte, 1980, p. 68
Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, listed in the catalogue p. 35
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the overmount at the upper two corners and at the centre of the upper edge. The sheet is time stained and there is some mount staining visible along the edges. There are tiny spots of foxing towards lower right corner and a few further very minor spots of foxing to the sheet. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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