Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings, Prints and Multiples
Monday, 06 June 2016, 06:00 pm
Lot 43
Kurt Seligmann, 1900-1962 (CH)
The Unwelcome Guests, 1943
Oil on hardboard.
H 1220 mm W 1780 mm.
Signed and dated lower right: Seligmann, 1943.
Verso inscribed on the stretcher: "The unwelcome guests"; "NYQ383".
| CHF | 100'000 / 150'000 |
| EUR | 90'000 / 130'000 |
| USD | 100'000 / 160'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 85'000
Annotation:
Provenance:
Estate of the artist;
Christie's, New York, 6. November 1979;
Collection Carl Laszlo, Basel;
Swiss private property.
Exhibition:
Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes.
21 Pinturas de Kurt Seligmann, September 1943. No. 10.
Literature:
see. Stephan E. Hauser. Kurt Seligmann 1900-1962,
Leben und Werk.
Basel, Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag, 1997.
No. 178, page 186, illustration of a similar work in India ink with pen and brush and color ink on glass.
Annotation:
We thank Dr. Stephan E. Hauser, Author of the Monograph about K. Seligmann, Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, for his kind assistance in cataloguing the artwork.