Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Hans Richter
Bunte Stadt mit Zeppelin (Colourful City with a Zeppelin)
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Hans Richter
1888 - 1976
Bunte Stadt mit Zeppelin (Colourful City with a Zeppelin)
signed with the initials HR and dated 16 (lower right)
oil on board
58.3 by 50.8 cm. 22 ⅝ by 20 in.
Framed: 85 by 78.5 cm. 33 ½ by 30 ⅞ in.
Executed in 1916.
Estate of the artist (until at least 2004)
Waterhouse and Dodd, London
Acquired in 2014 from the above by the present owner
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Hans Richter, Art 1905-1966, 1968, no. 30, listed (titled Workers)
Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Zurich, Kunsthaus and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Hans Richter. Dadaist, Filmpionier, Maler, Theoretiker, 1982, no. 71, p. 141, listed
Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Hans Richter: Malerei und Film, 1989, no. 19, p. 52, illustrated in colour
Locarno, Palazzo Morettini, Hans Richter. Tra cinema e pittura, 1989, n.n., p. 25, illustrated in colour (titled Città colorata con lo Zeppelin)
New York, Janos Gat Gallery, Hans Richter: Early Works from the Estate, 2004, p. 6, illustrated in colour