Lot 124
India ink line drawing.
H 585 mm W 660 mm.
Inscribed lower right: Seligmann.
CHF | 2'000 / 4'000 |
EUR | 1'800 / 3'600 |
USD | 2'100 / 4'200 |
Hammer Price: CHF 2'000
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.