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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Colored chalk drawing
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Beim Lesen, 1940
Colored chalk drawing
Starting bid:
€ 11,000
Estimate:
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122
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Beim Lesen, 1940
Colored chalk drawing
Starting bid:
€ 11,000
Estimate:
€ 12,000 - 18,000
End: 04-15-26 16:00:00 Berlin
04-15-26 10:00:00 New York
04-15-26 07:00:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 15h:27m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 108,18 €,
within the EU countries 187,45 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976
Beim Lesen. Ca. 1940-1943.
Colored chalk drawing over India ink.
Barely legibly signed in the lower right. On wove paper. 25.8 x 40 cm (10.1 x 15.7 in), the full sheet. [AW].

• With concise lines, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff depicts his wife Emy reading.
• Banned from painting since 1941, he created small-format, colorful masterpieces in the seclusion of rural solitude.
• Only a few works from this period have survived; many were destroyed in 1945.

The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, southern Germany.