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Lot 322 Dα

August Macke - Abstrakte Formen XX

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 18.000 € - 20.000 €

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.

Catalogue Raisonné

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