Lot #1603: OSKAR SCHLEMMER - Profil (Drei Köpfe nach rechts) - Chalk drawing on paper

   

Artist: Oskar Schlemmer (German, 1888 - 1943).
Title: "Profil (Drei Köpfe nach rechts)".
Medium: Chalk drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1928.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 3/4 x 11 5/16 in. (222 x 287 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $12,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $15,000/18,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in chalk, lower right. Drawn on lightweight pale cream wove paper. Overall condition good to very good; very small chip in the paper, upper centerr; a few fox marks and mild edge toning; remains of hinging paper and collector ink stamps, verso. A Letter of Authenticity (LOA) accompanies the work. If you have a bona fide interest in bidding on this lot kindly send an email to: [email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s).
Comment(s): A very good comparable to our example is the sale for $39,905 (€35,000) of “Profile (Funf Kopfe nach links) [Profile: Five Heads to the Left], 5.31” x 11.50”, 1928, unsigned, at Christie’s Paris, 06/08/2016 lot #8. Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. Many of his celebrated works involve the representation of bodies as architectural forms, reducing the figure to a rhythmic play between convex, concave, and flat surfaces. Schlemmer died in 1943 so this work is in the public domain. [30500-2-12000-NA]