LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel on paper

Measurements:

21.57 in. (54.80 cm.) (height) by 16.30 in. (41.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated '30.1.33' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Oskar Schlemmer: Handzeichnungen, Aquarelle, February - March 1960, no. 149; this exhibition later travelled to ten further locations in Germany between April 1960 and August 1961. London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Painters of the Bauhaus, March - April 1962, no. 186, p. 82 (illustrated). London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Drawings, Watercolours, Collages, Expressionism, Bauhaus, Dada, January 1966, no. 59 (illustrated).

Literature:

H. Hildebrandt, Oskar Schlemmer, Munich, 1952, no. 822. R.N. Ketterer, Moderne Kunst III, Campione d'Italia, 1966, no. 171 (illustrated p. 189). K. von Maur, Oskar Schlemmer: Oeuvrekatalog der Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle und Plastiken, Munich, 1979, no. K55, pp. 359-360 (illustrated p. 360).

Provenance:

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London, by whom acquired in 1960. Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, by whom acquired from the above in 1966. Maria Tannenbaum, New York. Findlay Gallery, New York. Galerie Zwirner, Cologne, 1969-1971. Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg. Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent.