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Property from a Distinguished German Collection

Willi Sitte

Komödianten

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Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished German Collection

Willi Sitte

1921 - 2013

Komödianten

signed WSitte and dated 54 (upper right); signed WSitte and dated 53 (lower right); titled and dated 1954 (on the reverse)

oil on board

105.5 by 106.4 cm. 41½ by 42⅞ in.

Framed: 118.6 by 118.8 cm. 46⅝ by 46¾ in.

Executed in 1953-54.

Lehr Kunstauktionen, Berlin, 29 April 2006, lot 507

Private Collection, Berlin

Thence by descent to the present owner

Hamburg, Kunsthalle Rostock, Willi Sitte, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Grafik, 1971, no. 71, illustrated (dated 1953)

Berlin, Kunsthalle Berlin, Willi Sitte, 1945-1982, 1982, no. 58, listed (dated 1954)

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