Erich Heckel

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