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Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings and Multiples
Monday, 26 November 2012, 06:00 pm

Kurt Seligmann, L'Eremite

Lot 63

Kurt Seligmann, 1900-1962 (CH)

L'Eremite, 1933/34

India ink line drawing.
H 363 mm W 269 mm.

Verso incised by unknown hand: Pl.III, Vag. Hér."

CHF2'400 / 2'800
EUR2'100 / 2'400
USD2'600 / 3'000

Hammer Price: CHF 3'000

Annotation:

Provenance:
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn;
Galerie Benador, Geneva;
Galerie Walter, Basel;
Swiss private property.

Exhibitions:
Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Neue Sachlichkeit und Surrealismus in der Schweiz 1915-1940, 17. September - 11. November 1979;
Bonn, Galerie Pudelko. Kurt Seligmann, Bilder Zeichnungen Graphik,
1. February - 31. March, 1975.

Literature:
Exhibition catalogue. Rudolf Koella. Neue Sachlichkeit und Surrealismus in der Schweiz 1915-1940. Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1979.
Fullpage color illustration, page 16;

Exhibition catalogue. Kurt Seligmann, Bilder Zeichnungen Graphik. Bonn, Galerie Pudelko, 1975. Illustration;
see. Rainer Michael Mason. Kurt Seligmann, Oeuvre gravé.
Genève, Editions du Tricorne, 1982. No. 39, page 33.

Annotation:
The present india ink line drawing is presumably the draft fot the etching "L'hermite", sheet 3 from the series of 15 etchings "Les vagabondages héraldiques", Paris 1934. 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 work.