Paul Adolf Seehaus - Herbstfeuer - image-1

Lot 363 Dα

Paul Adolf Seehaus - Herbstfeuer

Auction 1078 - overview Cologne
02.12.2016, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 37.200 € (incl. premium)

Paul Adolf Seehaus

Herbstfeuer
1917

Mixed media (watercolour and opaque colour, chalk, India ink) on lightly textured watercolour laid paper 12.9/13.1 x 21.7 cm Signed and dated 'Seehaus 17' in black India ink sideways in the depiction lower right. Titled and inscribed "4 Herbstfeuer" in black pencil verso. - In fine condition.

Light smoke seems to be coming from the two fireplaces diffusing into the landscape, forming a brighter contrast to the muted colours in blue, green, and brown red that characterise the clods in front of the mountains. The abstract interpretation of the small pictorial elements may formally be reminiscent of Paul Klee's graphic abbreviations as the planar rhythm can be compared to the watercolour structures of his friend August Macke. Seehaus himself commented: “I have been producing small watercolours for some time now: visionary landscapes, half Russian, half Chinese, hieroglyphs that are almost indecipherable.” (cited after: Dering, op. cit., p. 112)

Catalogue Raisonné

Dering A 51; Rave II, 30

Provenance

Artist's estate; formerly G. Simsa-Drascher, Barmen; Private possession

Literature

Peter Dering, Paul Adolf Seehaus. Leben und Werk, Bonn 2004, p. 109 with illus.

Exhibitions

Munich 1918 (Münchner Neue Sezession), IV. Ausstellung, cat. no. 181; Berlin 1926 (Kronprinzenpalais), Gedenk-Ausstellung Paul Adolf Seehaus (?)