Ernst Barlach - Apfelfängerin - image-1

Lot 162 Dα

Ernst Barlach - Apfelfängerin

Auction 1188 - overview Cologne
04.12.2021, 11:00 - Modern and Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 6.875 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Barlach

Apfelfängerin
1921

Charcoal on firm drawing paper with perforated right edge 50.9 x 37.5 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'EBarlach 1921' (joined) lower left. - The sheet somewhat browned overall and with marginal defects.

A further "Apfelfängerin" by Barlach is closely related to the drawing on offer (Wittboldt/Laur 1842). The charcoal drawing features an almost identical motif as a mirror image.

Catalogue Raisonné

Not recorded by Schult; not recorded by Wittboldt/Laur

Certificate

With an expert report by Franziska Hell, Ernst Barlach Stiftung, Güstrow, from September 2021

Provenance

Franz Guntermann, Münster; in family possession, Rhineland, since the early 1960s