ID 717800
Lot 442 | ERIKA GIOVANNA KLIEN (1900-1957)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
Schleifer
watercolour and pencil on paper
13 7⁄8 x 21 5⁄8 in. (35.4 x 54.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1935
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Bernhard Leitner, New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in August 1980.
Exhibited
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Erika Giovanna Klien, March - May 1987, no. 184, p. 136 (dated 'circa 1934').
Vienna, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Erika Giovanna Klien, Wien New York 1900-1957, January - March 2001, p. 102 (illustrated p. 105); this exhibition later travelled to Bozen, Museion, Museum für Moderne Kunst, April - June 2001 and Salzburg, Rupertinum, June - July 2001.
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Post lot text
We thank Prof. Leitner for his help in researching the work.
| Artist: | Erika Giovanna Klien (1900 - 1957) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Artist: | Erika Giovanna Klien (1900 - 1957) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Painted, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Expressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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