Asta: 502 / Modern Art II del 18 luglio 2020 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 347

 

347
Alexej von Jawlensky
Köpfe, 1922.
Potfolio with 6 hand-colored Lithographs with ...
Stima:
€ 60,000 / $ 64,800
Risultato:
€ 65,000 / $ 70,200

( commissione inclusa)
Köpfe. 1922.
Potfolio with 6 hand-colored Lithographs with title leaf, released by Nassauischer Kunstverein, Neues Museum, Wiesbaden 1922.
Rosenbach 18-23. Each signed and numbered. Additionally numbered on the portfolio's pastedown and inscribed with the name of the first owner "Otto Ralfs". With a dedication "Diese Mappe ist mit besonderer Liebe / für Herrn Otto Ralfs von mir koloriert/ A.Jawlensky" and inscription "Eigenhändig koloriert / A.Jawlensky" on the title leaf. One of the rare hand-colord copies from the complete edition of 100 copies. On beige machine-made laid paper. Up to 31.5 x 20.5 cm (12.4 x 8 in). Sheet: each ca. 49,8 x 39,8 cm (19,6 x 15,7 in).
Printed by Vereinigte Druckereien Wiesbaden. Each of the six sheets with watercolors in soft shades of blue, yellow and rose.
• Only hand-colored copy of the complete portfolio on the international auction market
• Another copy of the portfolio is in possession of the Stae Art Collections Dresden
• Even single hand-colored sheets are extremely rare
• With a personal dedication by Jawlensky to the Brunswick collector and gallerist Otto Ralfs
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PROVENANCE: Collection Otto Ralfs, Brunswick (obtained from the artist)
Private collection Bavaria (until 1993).
Private collection Northern Germany (since 1993).

EXHIBITION: John Cage und… Der Bildende Künstler John Cage, Akademie der Künste Berlin March 25 - May 27, 2012 / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, July 15 - October 7, 2012, without illu. in cat.

LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst Munich, 193rd auction, Modern Art Portfolios III, November 29, 1993, cat. no. 2027.
"[..] it is a hint of color that lets the black line structure resonate. These work by Jawlensky are by no means illuminations in the actual sense, but works of art with a unique beauty and a very own character [.] .] "Detlev Rosenbach, Alexej von Jawlensky. Leben und druckgraphisches Werk, Hanover 1985, p. 80.




347
Alexej von Jawlensky
Köpfe, 1922.
Potfolio with 6 hand-colored Lithographs with ...
Stima:
€ 60,000 / $ 64,800
Risultato:
€ 65,000 / $ 70,200

( commissione inclusa)