Modern & Contemporary Discoveries including Works from the former Claude and Georges Pompidou Collection

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Property from a Private French Collection

Otto Freundlich

Composition

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Otto Freundlich

1878 - 1943

Composition

signed Otto Freundlich and dated 1940 (lower right)

ink on paper

24,8 x 16,3 cm; 9¾ x 6⅜ in.

Executed in 1940.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Monsieur Christophe Duvivier.

Estate of the artist

Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss, Paris (artist's wife; by descent from the above)

Private collection, Montfort-L’Amaury

Edda Maillet, Pontoise

Thence by descent to the present owner

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