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Ernst Barlach
Wedel 1870 - 1938 Rostock
Der singende Mann [The Singing Man]
Bronze with fine, olive-brown patina.
Conceived in 1928. One of only 16 lifetime casts.
Height: 49.3 cm
Hans Bellmer
1902 Katowice, German Empire (now Poland) - Paris 1975
Désarticulation sur fond rayé
Oil paint, pen and black ink, pencil on canvas; 1958
65.3 x 65.3 cm
Sold to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Carl Blechen
1798 Cottbus - Berlin 1840
Forest Landscape with a Resting Man in front of a Wayside Shrine
Pen and brush and black ink over pencil on paper; executed circa 1830-35.
171 x 274 mm
Eugène Boudin
1824 Honfleur - Deauville 1898
Marine au grand ciel
Pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard. Stamped with the monogram lower right in blue: E. B (Lugt 828); dated lower left in black chalk: 1860.
213 x 287 mm
Gustave Caillebotte
1848 Paris – Gennevilliers 1894
Le mur du jardin potager, Yerres
Pastel on paper.
Signed and dated upper right: G. Caillebotte 77.
435 x 590 mm
Carl Gustav Carus
1789 Leipzig - Dresden 1869
Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin
Oil on canvas; executed in the 1820s.
33.5 x 43 cm
Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Carl Gustav Carus
1789 Leipzig - Dresden 1869
A Swan among the Reeds, by Moonlight
Charcoal with white heightening on brownish paper laid down on thin board.
Signed and dated on a small piece of paper attached on verso: Zum 11. Septbr. 1852. Carus (fig.1)
228 x 191 mm
Sold to the J. P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Franz Ludwig Catel
1778 Berlin - Rome 1856
Portrait of Leo von Klenze
Oil on Card, executed on the 29th of February or the 5th of March 1824.242 x 167 mm.
Study for the painting "Kronprinz Ludwig in der spanischen Weinschänke zu Rom", Bayerische Staatsgemälde-sammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, München
Cima da Conegliano
Italy, circa 1459-1517
Madonna and Child in a Landscape
Oil on panel, circa1496-1499.
73,0 x 59,4 cm
Sold to the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Comte de Clarac
1777 - Paris - 1847
Forêt vierge du Brésil
Pen and sepia wash, over pencil, heightened with white. C.1816-18
617 x 865 mm
Sold to the Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau, East Prussia - Zandvoort, Netherlands 1925
Still Life of Flowers
Watercolour and gouache on velin. 1923.
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink: Lovis Corinth Mai 1923.
480 x 605 mm
Lieven Cruyl
1634 - Gent - after 1690
View of the Piazza Navona in Rome with Sant’Agnese under Construction
Pen and red-brown ink over black chalk, grey wash.
335 x 492 mm
Sold to the Morgan Library, New York
Honoré Daumier
1808 Marseilles - Valmondois 1879
L’Amateur d’estampes
Oil on panel, executed c.1860-2.
24.7 x 30.7 cm
Jacques-Louis David
1748 Paris – Brussels 1825
An Antique Bed with Scenes from the Life of Hector
Grey wash over black chalk on laid paper.
213 x 387 mm
Sold to the British Museum, London
Edgar Degas
1834 - Paris - 1917
Étude de Nu
Charcoal and pastel on paper; executed c.1888-92.
Stamped lower left with the red signature stamp of the estate (Lugt 658).
558 x 368 mm
Sold to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Sonia Delaunay
1885 Odessa - Paris 1979
Rythme coloré
Gouache over pencil on card; executed 1950.
Signed in pencil: Sonia Delaunay.
680 x 345 mm
André Derain
1880 Chatou - Garches 1954
Le Pont à Chatou
Watercolour. Signed lower right: a. Derain; 1904-5.
483 x 590 mm
Carlo Dolci
1616 - Florence - 1686
Portrait of Teresa Bucarelli, the Artist’s Wife
Black and red chalk.
282 x 188 mm
Cornelis Dusart
1660 - Haarlem - 1704
Five Peasants in an Interior
Watercolor, gouache, and black and red chalk on parchment. Signed and dated, lower right, in black ink: Corn: Dusart fe. 1690.
258 x 310 mm
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853
Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen
Pen and gray ink with brown wash.
Signed with initial and dated: E. 1830.
215 x 160 mm
Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Anselm Feuerbach
1829 Speyer - Venice 1880
Study of the Head of a Young Roman [Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco]
Oil on canvas; executed c.1857.
43.7 x 62.7 cm
Caspar David Friedrich
1774 Greifswald – Dresden 1840
The Ruins of Eldena Monastery, View of the High West Facade, as Seen from the East
Brown sepia wash over pencil on laid paper.
Dated in the lower right: den 2t. Juni 1801.
203 x 226 mm
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
1727 Sudbury - London 1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures, Horse and Shed
Black chalk and grey washes, heightened with white; executed in the early 1780s.
Stamped with Earl of Warwick’s collector mark
280 x 355 mm
Sold to the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen
Alberto Giacometti
1901 Borgonovo – Chur 1966
Étude d’après la tête de la déesse Mut, [Egyptian Museum, Cairo]
Pen and black ink on notepaper.
269 x 209 mm
Sold to the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Alberto Giacometti
1901 Borgonovo - Chur 1966
Tête d’Annette
Pencil on wove paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Alberto Giacometti 1959.
502 x 328 mm
Julio González
1876 Barcelona – Arcueil nr. Paris 1942
Personnage
Watercolour, pen and black ink over pencil.
Monogrammed and dated: j. G. 10-I-41.
313 x 240 mm
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
1746 Fuendetodos - Bordeaux 1828
Portrait of the painter Cesar Arbasía
Red chalk on laid paper
Inscribed in red chalk: Cesar Arbasia. / Pint.
174 x 126 mm
Vilhelm Hammershøi
1864 - Copenhagen - 1916
A Group of Trees - Landscape on the ‘Kongevejen’ near Gentofte
Black chalk on laid paper. Executed in 1892.
210 x 285 mm
Sold to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Vilhelm Hammershøi
1864 - Copenhagen - 1916
Gaardlænge, Vejle (Barn near Vejle)
Oil on canvas; executed in 1883.
35.0 x 37.5 cm
Adolf von Hildebrand
1847 Marburg - Munich 1921
Werbung [Courtship]
Terracotta relief. Signed lower right with the monogram: AH; executed c.1886.
One of only two known versions in terracotta.
Ferdinand Hodler
1853 Bern - Geneva 1918
Giulia Leonardi
Oil on canvas; executed c. 1910-11.
Signed: F. Hodler
45,0 x 40,5 cm
Victor Hugo
1802 Besançon - Paris 1885
Landscape with Ruins
Brown ink and brown wash on envelope paper;
executed c.1847-51.
97 x 262 mm
Sold to the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunst-sammlungen
R. B. Kitaj, R.A.
1932 Cleveland – Los Angeles 2007
Portrait of Philip Roth
Charcoal on paper; executed 1985.
775 x 570 mm
Sold to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Paul Klee
1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940
Morgen Grau
Watercolour and gouache on paper, laid down on the artist’s mount.
Signed: Klee lower left, dated, numbered and titled on the mount: 1932 / B 4 / Morgen Grau.
332 x 405 mm (mount 440 x 505 mm)
Paul Klee
1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940
Geister des Theaters
Watercolour on paper, mounted by the artist on card; 1939.
Signed upper right: Klee; dated on the mount lower centre below the border mark and inscribed with the work catalogue number and title: 1939/19 Geister des Theaters.
270 x 210 mm (mount: 428 x 318 mm)
Max Klinger
1857 Leipzig - Großjena 1920
Im Park [The Amorous Couple]
Pen, black chalk and ink heightened with white on paper. Signed M.K. and dated lower left (18)87.
416 x 251 mm
Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Christoph Heinrich Kniep
1755 Hildesheim - Naples 1825
The Bay of Naples seen from Posillipo, in the Background Vesuvius
Pen and brown ink, brown wash,
executed between 1787 and 1799
645 x 885 mm
Joseph Anton Koch
Obergiblen 1768 - 1839 Rome
Southern Mountain Landscape
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white. Executed c. 1799. Signed in the lower right margin: J. Koch.
560 x 823 mm
Sold to the National Gallery, Ottawa
Max Liebermann
1847 - Berlin - 1935
Boys Bathing near Bad Kösen
Watercolour and gouache on paper; c. 1895.
Signed lower left in pen and ink: M. Liebermann.
500 x 652 mm
Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago
Adolph von Menzel
1815 Breslau – Berlin 1905
Man Asleep in Baroque Costume (Portrait of Menzel’s Brother Richard)
Black and white chalk on brown paper.
Signed with initials and dated: A. M. 54.
241 x 183 mm
Adolph von Menzel
1815 Breslau - Berlin 1905
Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile
Carpenter’s pencil, with stumping, on paper watermarked J. Whatman. 1894
Signed lower right and dated: A. Menzel / 94
416 x 290 mm
Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago
Achille-Etna Michallon
1796 - Paris - 1822
View of the Villa Medici and Sta Trinità dei Monti
Pencil. Signed and dated: michallon Roma 1819
285 x 275 mm
Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago
Emil Nolde
1867 Nolde – Seebüll 1956
Woman in a Black Hat
Watercolour on lightly grained buff paper; 1918.
Signed upper right in pen and dark brown ink: Nolde.
450 x 301 mm
Emil Nolde
1867 Nolde i. Holstein - Seebüll 1956
Herbstblumen [Autumn Flowers]
Oil on canvas; painted in 1931.
Signed in the lower right: Emil Nolde; signed and
inscribed on the stretcher: Emil Nolde, Herbstblumen (C)
73,9 x 100,4 cm
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
1789 - Lübeck - 1869
Germania and Italia
Pencil on paper laid down on board,
composed of 9 sheets
952 x 1086 mm
Sold to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München
Pablo Picasso
1881 Málaga - Mougins 1973
Buste de Femme
Pencil and ink on paper; 1903.
Dated on the reverse (by the artist’s father): 23 Mayo 1903.
232 x 172 mm
Odilon Redon
1840 Bordeaux - Paris 1916
Pensées dans un vase
Pastel on paper.
Signed lower left: Odilon Redon.
623 x 482 mm
Sold to a private collection, France
Anita Rée
1885 Hamburg - Kampen/Sylt 1933
Weiße Bäume, Positano
Öl auf Leinwand. Unten rechts monogrammiert: AR
71 x 80,5 cm
Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Christian Rohlfs
1849 Niendorf, Holstein - Hagen 1938
Birkenwald [Birch Trees on a Hillside]
Oil on canvas, 1907.
Signed lower right and dated: C Rohlfs 7
51.5 x 72.5 cm
Félicien Rops
1833 Namur - Essonnes 1898
À un dîner d’athées [At a Dinner of Atheists]
Graphite and pencil with stomping, brown pastel, heightened with white on prepared paper. Executed c.1879-85. Signed and inscribed at the lower left: F. Rops / 1er dessin; titled at the upper left: A UN DINER D’ATHÉES.
305 x 220 mm
Philipp Otto Runge
1777 Wolgast - Hamburg 1810
Zeichnende Hände [Hands Drawing]
Black chalk with white heightening on white paper with the watermark: Greifswald Academie;
executed in 1798
205 x 310 mm
John Russell, R.A.
1745 Guildford – Hall 1806
Portrait of Francesco Bartolozzi, R. A. (1727-1815)
Pastel. 1789.
Indistinctly inscribed and dated [Fran]cesco […] / J. Russell 1789 (on a label attached to the backboard). 598 x 445 mm
Sold to the Musée du Louvre, Paris
Georges Seurat
1859 - Paris - 1891
Femme assise bas
Conté crayon on paper; executed c. 1883.
320 x 243 mm
Bertel Thorvaldsen
1770 - Copenhagen - 1844
Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow, after 1810
Black crayon heightened with white on brownish paper. Signed: A [Alberto] Thorvaldsen Fecit.
On the original mount.
370 x 430 mm
Sold to the Art Institute of Chicago
Jan Toorop
1858 Poerworedjo, Java – The Hague 1928
Self-Portrait
Chalk, watercolour, gold on wove paper; circa 1883.
310 x 248 mm
Sold to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696 Venice - Madrid 1770
The Holy Family resting on the Flight into Egypt
Black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper.
284 x 197 mm
Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727 - Venice - 1804
The Agony in the Garden
Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brown wash on paper. Executed between 1786 and 1790.
Signed at the lower right: Domo. Tiepolo f.
460 x 360 mm
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
1750 Toulouse - Paris 1819
Byblis transformée en Fontaine
Pencil and black chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper.
Signed and dated lower right: P. Valenciennes 1790.
390 x 524 mm
Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Félix Vallotton
1865 Lausanne - Paris 1925
Aïcha
Oil on canvas; executed 1922.
Signed and dated: F. VALLOTTON.
100 x 81 cm
Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle
ÉDOUARD VUILLARD
1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) - La Baule 1940
Sous la grande lampe à Saint-Jacut
Glue-based distemper on paper mounted on canvas; executed in 1909.
Stamped at the lower right: É Vuillard (Lugt 2497a).
78.5 x 60.0 cm
Sold to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Éduard Vuillard
1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) - La Baule 1940
La salle d’étude aux Pavillons à Cricqueboeuf
Glue-based distemper on buff paper; c.1910.
Stamped with signature lower right: E. Vuillard (Lugt 2497a).
584 x 445 mm
Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Federico Zuccaro
c. 1541-1609
David Accepting Tribute from the Conquered Nations
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white; c.1566. Preparatory drawing for the ceiling of the chapel at the Villa Farnese, Caprarola.
325 x 264 mm