Sale: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection, Dec. 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 544

 

544
August Macke
Abstrakte Formen XX, 1913.
Pencil and Colored crayon drawing
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,500 / $ 14,580

(incl. surcharge)
Abstrakte Formen XX. 1913.
Pencil and Colored crayon drawing.
Heiderich 1955. Lower right monogrammed "M". Verso with the numbered estate stamp "123" (Lugt 1775b) and numbered "G. K. 4475" and with a customs stamp, presumably titled, dated and numbered by Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke. On off-white wove paper. 20.3 x 14.7 cm (7.9 x 5.7 in), the full sheet.
[KT].
• This is one of the few sheets from the series "Abstrakten Formen" available on the auction market.
• Other motifs from this unique 1913 series are in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Kunsthaus Zürich
• August Macke was one of the most important German Expressionists and part of the "Blauer Reiter"
.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (with estate stamp).
Private collection USA (acquired in 1979).
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalai.

EXHIBITION: Baltimore collects: Constructivism & De Stijl from a Private Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, Dec. 1983 - Feb. 1984, cat. no. 20.

LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, auction on May 20/21, 1960, lot 359 (illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction June 1 - 3, 1978, cat. no. 856 (illu.).




544
August Macke
Abstrakte Formen XX, 1913.
Pencil and Colored crayon drawing
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 13,500 / $ 14,580

(incl. surcharge)