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Property from a Distinguished European Private Collection

Jeanne Mammen

Lesender Knabe (Reading Boy)

Lot closes

07:25:39

October 15, 01:41 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Current Bid

15,000 GBP

5 Bids

Reserve met

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Private Collection

Jeanne Mammen

1890 - 1976


Lesender Knabe (Reading Boy)

signed J. Mammen (upper right)

tempera on card laid down on board

99.2 by 70 cm. 39 by 27½ in.

Framed: 116.5 by 87.7 cm. 45⅞ by 34½ in.

Executed circa 1943-45.

Private Collection, Berlin (acquired by 1997)

Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, 27 November 2015, lot 613

Private Collection, Germany

Grosvenor Fine Arts Ltd, London

Acquired from the above in 2021 by the present owner

Jörn Merkert (ed.), Jeanne Mammen, Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 1997, no. G 114, p. 211, illustrated

Stuttgart, Galerie G. A. Richter, Jeanne Mammen, 1974