Gabriele Münter - Schlafendes Kind - image-1

Lot 404 D

Gabriele Münter - Schlafendes Kind

Auction 1090 - overview Cologne
31.05.2017, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 14.880 € (incl. premium)

Gabriele Münter

Schlafendes Kind
1908

Colour woodcut on Japan laid paper 17 x 24 cm (22 x 26.8 cmm) The only proof in this colour variant of a total of only 6 prints. - Vibrant colours, some minor creases in the margins, minimally irregularly cut at the top and at the right.

This very rare colour woodcut shows Gabriele Münter's niece,Elfriede Schroeter, called Friedel. Münter had already depicted her as a baby in two woodcuts (cf. Hoberg/Jansen 26, 28).

Catalogue Raisonné

Hoberg/Jansen 31.3; Helms 30

Provenance

Artist's estate; Gabriele Münter Stiftung 869; North German private possession