OTTO FREUNDLICH (1878-1943)

Lot 237
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Lot 237 | OTTO FREUNDLICH (1878-1943)
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OTTO FREUNDLICH (1878-1943)

Kopf (Selbstbildnis)

signed and dated 'Otto Freundlich. 1923' (lower left)

gouache on paper

28 5⁄8 x 23 1⁄8 in. (72.6 x 58.7 cm.)

Executed in 1923





Provenance

Édouard Roditi, Paris & New York, by 1958.

Private collection, North Germany, by the late 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

E. Roditi, 'The Art of Otto Freundlich', in Arts, vol. 7, New York, April 1958, pp. 26 & 28 (illustrated p. 26).

J. Heusinger von Waldegg, Otto Freundlich, 1878-1943: Monographie mit Dokumentation und Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 1978, no. 131, p. 87 (illustrated fig. 57, p. 125).

J. Friedrich, ed., Otto Freundlich, Kosmischer Kommunismus, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig & Kunstmuseum Basel, Munich, 2017, p. 339 (illustrated pp. 133, 399).

Otto Freundlich, 1878-1943, La révélation de l'abstraction, exh. cat., Musée Montmartre, Paris, 2020, p. 18 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Otto Freundlich, 1878-1943, Gemälde, Graphik, Skulpturen, May - July 1960, no. 9, n.p..
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