Lot Essay
The block for this large landscape woodcut is preserved at the Brücke Museum, Berlin. (See Magdalena Moeller (ed.), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Die Holzstöcke, Berlin, 2011, no. 121.)
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Häuser und Mond
Details
KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF (1884-1976)
Häuser und Mond
woodcut, 1919, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, inscribed with the work number 1930, one of a very small number of impressions, printing very strongly and evenly, the full sheet, a short horizontal and a longer vertical crease at centre, some very pale light-staining and a few minor defects at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition
Block 397 x 500 mm., Sheet 480 x 695 mm.
Häuser und Mond
woodcut, 1919, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, inscribed with the work number 1930, one of a very small number of impressions, printing very strongly and evenly, the full sheet, a short horizontal and a longer vertical crease at centre, some very pale light-staining and a few minor defects at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition
Block 397 x 500 mm., Sheet 480 x 695 mm.
Literature
Schapire 257
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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