Erich Heckel - Vorfrühling im Gebirge - image-1

Lot 379 D

Erich Heckel - Vorfrühling im Gebirge

Auction 1163 - overview Cologne
09.12.2020, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern and Contemporary Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

Erich Heckel

Vorfrühling im Gebirge
1923

Watercolour over preparatory chalk drawing on paper 43.4 x 65.1 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Heckel 23' in pencil lower right. - In fine condition with fresh colours, the paper browned. The sheet mounted on fibreboard support; old marginal defects.

Certificate

We would like to thank Renate Ebner and Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel Estate, Hemmenhofen, for kind information. The watercolour is known and recorded in the archive under the auxiliary title "Allgäu".

Provenance

Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, Auction May 1959, lot 290 with illus.; Collection Bischof Kunst, Bonn; Lempertz, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, 20 Nov.1989, A 643/lot 281 ("Gebirgslandschaft") with colour plate; Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover; South German private collection, estate