ID 1515488
Lot 698 | WOLS (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze). Kopf
Estimate value
€ 35 000 – 55 000
1913 Berlin - 1951 Paris
Title: Kopf.
Date: 1939/40.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on Brownish drawing paper.
Measurement: 36 x 27.5cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: WOLS.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Kay Boyle, New York
- Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
- Collection Margarete Schultz, Great Neck
- Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 100th auction, 8th June 1961, lot 99
- Private collection Cologne (acquired from the previous owner in 1961)
Exhibitions:
- New York, 1942
- New York, 1959
- Kunsthaus Zurich, 1989/90
- Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, 1990
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2002
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2024/25
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. WOLS. Pictures, Watercolours, Drawings, Photographs, Kunsthaus Zürich/Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf 189/90, cat. no. 136, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Im Blickfeld: WOLS, Komposition 1947, Hamburger Kunsthalle 2002, cat. no. 7, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Surrealism and Anti-Fascism, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2024/25, p. 661, ill.
- Pioneering artistic genius between Surrealism and Tachism
- Characteristic watercolour from the years of his artistic breakthrough
- An expressive representation between dream and reality, fantasy and sensation.
| Artist: | Wols (1913 - 1951) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
| Artist: | Wols (1913 - 1951) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
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