Heinrich Nauen - Mother and Child (Composition Sketch) - image-1

Lot 998 D

Heinrich Nauen - Mother and Child (Composition Sketch)

Auction 950 - overview Cologne
05.12.2009, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 2.000 €
Result: 1.800 € (incl. premium)

Charcoal drawing, with rubbed composition, over red chalk preliminary drawing and opaque white correction on drawing paper 64.7 x 43 cm, because of some defects laid down on light carboard, framed under glass. Signed and dated H. Nauen 0.19 with pencil in lower right. - Somewhat browned from the fixative, with a tear 5.5 cm long in upper right and with a horizontal tear going through the composition and the entire sheet in the lower fifth of the sheet.


cf. Malcomess 310 (study of the subject).

Authenticity has been orally confirmed by Klara Denker-Nagels, Bonn

Provenance

Formerly Johannes Geller Collection, Neuss