Paula Modersohn-Becker - Apfelbaum vor hellem Himmel (Apple Tree before Light Sky) - image-1

Lot 4 D

Paula Modersohn-Becker - Apfelbaum vor hellem Himmel (Apple Tree before Light Sky)

Auction 972 - overview Cologne
03.12.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 35.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 57.600 € (incl. premium)

Oil over pencil scetching on thin brown cardboard 42 x 54.9 cm, the margins relined with canvas (42.4 x 55 cm) and spanned on stretcher, framed. Dated 1900 at right in the middle ground. - On reverse with the number "251" encircled in red (number after the list of works in the artist's estate compiled by Otto Modersohn in 1921) and with a confirmation inscribed in pencil by the artist's daughter "Ich bezeuge dass dieses Bild / von Paula Modersohn-Becker gemalt ist/ T Modersohn". - The cardboard with irregular margins, the corners with traces of thumbtack holes.

Busch/Werner 91

Lot 4 Evening auction 3 Dec. 2010, 7 p.m.

Provenance

Otto Modersohn; Tille Modersohn; Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen (1968); Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich (1972); formerly private collection, Bergisches Land

Exhibitions

Bremen 1968 (Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandlung U. Voigt KG), Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, cat. nr. 4 with ill.; Munich 1972 (Galerie Gunzenhauser), Paula Modersohn-Becker, Ölbilder, Handzeichnungen, cat. nr. 3