Erich Heckel - Verschneite Berge - image-1

Lot 203 D

Erich Heckel - Verschneite Berge

Auction 1178 - overview Cologne
18.06.2021, 11:01 - Modern/Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 12.500 € (incl. premium)

Erich Heckel

Verschneite Berge
1922

Watercolour, gouache, heightened with white, and black chalk on smooth paper 33 x 42.5 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Erich Heckel' in pencil lower right and titled 'Verschneite Landschaft' lower right. - Verso inscribed with specifications on the work and numeration "1922/49" in pencil by an unknown hand and with stamp "WALLRAF RICHARTZ MUSEUM KÖLN" (Lugt 2547 c). - In fine condition with fresh colours, slightly faded in the sky area. Minor marginal defects.

Certificate

We would like to thank Renate Ebner and Hans Geissler, Erich Heckel Estate Hemmenhofen, for the information that the previously unknown watercolour will be included in the Heckel works archive.
We would like to thank Marcus Leifeld, provenance research of the City of Cologne - department of museum affairs, for supplementary information. The work is listed under EK-No. 14835.

Provenance

Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (1923); Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne; confiscated in 1937 as "degenerated" by the Nazis; Art trade Dr. Hildebrand Gurlitt; Private possession, Berlin; since then in family possession