Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings, Prints and Multiples
Monday, 23 May 2011, 06:00 pm
Lot 98
Kurt Seligmann, 1900-1962 (CH)
Maldoror, 1938
India ink line drawing.
H 620 mm W 485 mm.
(Frame). Signed and dated.
| CHF | 5'000 / 8'000 |
| EUR | 4'300 / 7'000 |
| USD | 5'400 / 9'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 6'000
Annotation:
Literature: Stephan E. Hauser.
Kurt Seligmann 1900 - 1962, Leben und Werk.
Basel, Schwabe & Co. AG, 1997.
No. 141, page 139, illustration.
Annotation: The india ink line drawing was the original draft for the reproduction in: Comte de Lautréamont. Les Chants de Maldoror, Oeuvres complètes.
With illustrations of K. Seligmann, Man Ray, M. Ernst, R. Magritte, etc. Paris, G.L.M., 1938.
Page 14, illustration.
We thank Dr. Stephan E. Hauser, Author of the Monograph about K. Seligmann, Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, for his kind assistance in cataloguing this work.