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Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings, Prints and Multiples
Monday, 06 June 2016, 06:00 pm

Kurt Seligmann, Untitled (The Offering)

Lot 124

Kurt Seligmann, 1900-1962 (CH)

Untitled (The Offering), approx. 1946

India ink line drawing.
H 585 mm W 660 mm.

Inscribed lower right: Seligmann.

Annotation:

Provenance:
Estate of the artist;
Collection Carl Laszlo, Basel;
Swiss private property.

Literature:
see. Jacques Leenhardt.
Wilfredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952.
New York, Studio Museum in Harlem and Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
No. 75, page 157, illustration of the painting "The Offering, 1946".

Annotation:
The drawing corresponds exactly with the painting "The Offering", which is shown at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland,
We thank Dr. Stephan E. Hauser, Author of the Monograph about K. Seligmann, Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, for his kind assistance for cataloguing the artwork.

CHF2'000 / 4'000
EUR1'800 / 3'600
USD2'100 / 4'200

Hammer Price: CHF 2'000