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Edmund Kesting (German, 1892-1970)
- Kreise

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Edmund Kesting (German, 1892-1970)
Kreise
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £12,500
  • ($24,575)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £10,000 - £15,000
  • ($19,660 - $29,490)

Sale Information

Sale 7600
Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale
25 June 2008
London, King Street





Lot Description

Edmund Kesting (German, 1892-1970)
Kreise
signed 'Kesting' (lower right)
gouache, coloured crayons and pencil on board in the artist's painted frame
14 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. (36.5 x 34.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1926

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM THE HOH COLLECTION

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1979, lot 191.
Private collection, Munich.
Anonymous sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 3 April 1996, lot 571.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

K. Werner, Edmund Kesting, Ein Maler fotografiert, Leipzig, 1987 (illustrated p. 25).

Exhibited

Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum, Internationale Sprachen der Kunst: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Hoh, August - October 1998, no. 49 (illustrated p. 134); this exhibition later travelled to Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall and Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

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