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Lot 129 D

Otto Freundlich - Composition

Auction 932 - overview Cologne
06.12.2008, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 12.000 € - 14.000 €
Result: 12.000 € (incl. premium)

Gouache over preliminary drawing in pencil on sturdy paper 15.8 x 14.3 cm, on verso mounted into a simple, hand-cut laid paper mat (30 x 24 cm), framed under glass. Monogrammed O.F. in yellow in the composition at lower left, beneath the gouache on the mat signed, dated and with a personal dedication in ink Frau Gerti Weber zum Geburtstag und in dankbarer Zuneigung für sie und ihren lieben Mann für die schönen Tage die ihre Gastfreundschaft uns in Etretat bereitete. Etretat 11.8.35. Otto Freundlich. - The original mat browned, with spots and mositure staining.

Otto Freundlich and Hannah Kossnick-Klock joined the painter Kurt Weber (1893-1964) in the Normandy in 1935, since the time in Paris they were close friends.

Provenance

Private collection, Hessia
Not recorded by Heusinger von Waldegg

Literature

Cf. Gottfried Biedermann (among others), Kurt Weber, exhib. cat. Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1993, "Zur Biographie", p. 90/91