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Frans Masereel - Matelot accoudé

Auction 1043 - overview Cologne
28.11.2014, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 11.780 € (incl. premium)
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Frans Masereel

Matelot accoudé
1929

Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Framed. Monogrammed ‘FM‘ in black lower left, signed and dated 'Frans Masereel 1929' to the reverse of the canvas. With an estate stamp to the reverse of the stretcher inscribed by Vorms with the artist, title and estate no. “17” in red chalk.

Catalogue Raisonné

Vorms 173

Provenance

Galerie Billiet, Paris; Galerie Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (labelled to the reverse); Herbert Lang collection, Bern; Private collection, Liechtenstein

Literature

Just Havelaar, Het werk van Frans Masereel, La Haye 1930, with full-page illus. (unpag., last page); Hannoverscher Anzeiger, Hanover 22 Feb.1931; V. Radsdolskaja, Frans Masereel, Moskau 1965, illus.

Exhibitions

Mannheim 1929 (Städtische Kunsthalle), Frans Masereel, cat. no. 56; Munich 1930 (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus), Frans Masereel, cat. no. 35 ("Fischer mit aufgestütztem Arm); Berlin 1930 (Galerie Hartberg), Frans Masereel, no. 9; Hanover 1931 (Kestner Gesellschaft), Frans Masereel, cat. no. 10; Leipzig 1931 (Leipziger Kunstverein), Frans Masereel, cat. no. 21, illus.