Edmund Kesting - Abstrakte Komposition (Abstract Composition) - image-1

Lot 475 D

Edmund Kesting - Abstrakte Komposition (Abstract Composition)

Auction 962 - overview Cologne
02.06.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 11.400 € (incl. premium)

Edmund Kesting

Abstrakte Komposition (Abstract Composition)
1927

painting behind glass 32,6 x 32,7 x 3 cm

The composition is related to Kesting's oil painting „Rote Sichel", dated 1927. Purchased by the Nationalgalerie (Ost) in 1972, according to kind information by Dr. Dieter Scholz, curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. Also see: Exhib. cat. Kunst im Aufbruch, Dresden 1918-1933, Albertinum Dresden, Staatl. Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, 1981, cat. nr. 299 with color ill. p. 216.

Provenance

From the estate of the artist, Gerda Kesting; private collection, North Germany