Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Buddleiastengel in gelber Flasche (Bough of Buddleia in yellow Bottle) - image-1

Lot 388 D

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Buddleiastengel in gelber Flasche (Bough of Buddleia in yellow Bottle)

Auction 997 - overview Cologne
22.05.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 37.820 € (incl. premium)

Watercolour and India ink on slightly grained watercolour laid paper with watermark "C.M. FABRIANO" 68.9 x 49.3 cm, framed under glass. Signed SRottluff [joined] in India ink lower left as well as with the dating work number 6055 in pencil below. On reverse titled -Bodleia[sic]stengel in gelber Flasche- in pencil as well as numbered 66/59 in green colour crayon by the artist; on the reverse lower edge the pencil inscription "60/55" by an unknown hand repeating the work number.

Certificate

We would like to thank the Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation Berlin for kind information.

Provenance

South German private collection (probably acquired in Munich in the 1960s), in family possession since