ID 1344879
Lot 196 | ADOPLH VON MENZEL (BRESLAU 1815-1905 BERLIN)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Who Goes There?
signed and dated 'Ad.Menzel/1876' (lower right)
gouache and gum arabic on paper
9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (23 x 14.4 cm.)
Provenance
Frau J. Hainauer, Berlin (acquired directly from the artist in 1876).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2007, lot 69.
Purchased by Private treaty by the present owner, December 2007.
Literature
H. Knackfuss, Adolf Menzel, Bielefeld & Leipzig, 1895, p. 89, illustrated p. 73, fig. 79, titled 'Wer steckt da oben'.
H. von Tschudi, Ausstellung von Werken Adolph v. Menzels in der kgl. Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1905, no. 246.
H. von Tschudi, Adolf von Menzel : Abbildungen seiner Gemälde und Studien, auf Grund der von der Kgl. Nationalgalerie im Frühjahr 1905 veranstalteten Ausstellung, Munich, 1906, no. 617.
| Artist: | Adolf von Menzel (1815 - 1905) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Romanticism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Adolf von Menzel (1815 - 1905) |
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| Applied technique: | Gouache |
| Art style: | Romanticism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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