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Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Wols

1913 - 1951


Tête grotesque

signed (lower right)

graphite, Indian ink and watercolour on paper

19.2 by 12.5 cm. 7½ by 4⅞ in.

Executed circa 1940.

Alexander Iolas, Paris

The Colllection of Claude Hersaint and Hélène Anavi, France

Sotheby’s, London, The Hélène Anavi Collection of Surrealist and Post-War Art, 27 March 1984, lot 58 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Philipp Gutbrod, Wols, Die Arbeiten auf Papier (kommentiertes kritisches Werkverzeichnis), Heidelberg 2004, no. A497, p. 405, illustrated