ID 1360312
Lot 82 | ADOLF WÖLFLI (1864-1930)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 80 000
DER GROSSE SKT. ADOLF-STARN (THE GREAT ST. ADOLF-STAR), DOUBLE-SIDED
signed and dated Adolf 1923 (lower right)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
26 x 43 1/8 in.
Executed in 1923.
Provenance
Private Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Jürg Stucker, Bern
Christie's, Geneva, 19 June 2001, lot 118
Literature
Elka Spoerri and Stefan Frey, Adolf Wölfli: Works from a Private Collection (Bern, Switzerland, 1984), p.88, pl. 48e, illustrated.
Matthew Marks Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings and Photographs (New York, 2001), n.p., cat. no. 99, illustrated.
Exhibited
Bern, Switzerland, Adolf Wölfli: Works from a Private Collection, May-June 1984.
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings and Photographs, 3 November-22 December 2001.
| Artist: | Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Graphite |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Graphite |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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