August Macke - Abstrakte Formen XX
August Macke
Abstrakte Formen XX
1913
Pencil and colour crayons on thin plain paper 20.2 x 14.7 cm Framed under glass. Oval estate stamp "Nachlass AUGUST MACKE" (Lugt 1775 b) verso, therein annotated "123" in ink and dated and titled "Abstrakte Formen XX 1913" (faded) in pencil. - Monogrammed "M" in pencil lower right by an unknown hand. - Slightly browned; some of the colour fields slightly faded. A horizontal paper defect along the upper margin.
List of works
Heiderich Drawings 1955
Certificate
We would like to thank Ursula Heidrich, Syke, for scientific consultation.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart 1960, cat. no. 359; Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich 1968/1970, cat. no. 767 resp. cat. no. 979; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg 1978, cat. no. 856; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg 1978, cat. no. 856; Private collection Maryland, USA (1979); Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Exhibitions
Baltimore 1983/1984 (The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland), Baltimore collects: Constructivism & De Stijl from a Private Collection, cat. no. 20