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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 105 | $****** - ****** | Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl) |
Works on Paper
37.8 x 30.8 cm (14.88 x 12.13 in)
photomontage on paper laid down on the artist"s mount
initialed and dated "HH 1920" (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed "DAS SCHÖNE MÄDCHEN HANNAH HÖCH 20." (on the artist"s mount); signed again, dated and inscribed ‘Hannah Höch „Das schöne Mädchen“ Fotomontage 1920 Leihgabe H. Höch" (on the artist"s label affixed to the reverse of the mount)
Private collection, North Germany, by whom acquired from the artist via the intermediation of Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, after 1961 and before 1965, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Stuttgart, Städtische Ausstellungshallen, Film und Foto: Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds , May - July 1929, no. 331.
Berlin, Galerie Gerd Rosen, Fotomontage von Dada bis heute, December 1946 - January 1947.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Dada: 1916-1923 , April - May 1953, no. 126.
Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, DADA, Dokumente einer Bewegung , September - October 1958, no. 410.
Vienna, Europäisches Forum Alpbach , Dada bis heute, August - September 1965, no. 91; this exhibition later travelled to Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt, September - October 1965; and Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, October - November 1965.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age , November 1968 - February 1969, p. 117 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, University of St. Thomas, March - May 1969; and San Francisco, Museum of Art, June - August 1969.
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Hannah Höch, Collagen aus den Jahren 1916-1971, May - July 1971, no. 10, p. 74; this exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, October - November 1971.
Paris, Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hannah Höch: Collages, Peintures, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Dessins , January - March 1976, no. 64, p. 65 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, March - May 1976.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Malerei und Photographie im Dialog, von 1840 bis heute , May - July 1977, no. 660, p. 283 (illustrated p. 282; dated ‘1919").
Berlin, Staatsgalerie, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre, August - October 1977, no. 3/610, p. 3/248 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Berlin 1900-1933, July - November 1978, no. 139 (illustrated).
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Fotomontagen, Gemälde, Aquarelle, February - May 1980, p. 85 (illustrated).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Automobile and Culture, July 1984 - January 1985, p. 85 (illustrated).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, German Art in the 20 th Century , Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985 , October - December 1985, no. 136 (illustrated; dated ‘1919/20"); this exhibition later travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, February - April 1986.
Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Hannah Höch: ihr Werk, ihr Leben, ihre Freunde, November 1989 - January 1990, p. 164 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, High & Low, Modern Art & Popular Culture, October 1990 - January 1991, no. 46, pp. 260 & 459 (illustrated p. 260); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, February - May 1991; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, June - September 1991.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre, The Photomontages of Hannah Höch, October 1996 - February 1997, no. 9, p. 34 (illustrated; dated ‘1919-1920"); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, February - May 1997; and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, June - September 1997.
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Puppen, Körper, Automaten - Phantasmen der Moderne, July - October 1999, pp. 318 & 480 (illustrated p. 318).
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, DADA, October 2005 - January 2006, no. 343, p. 574 (illustrated fig. 6, p. 493; dated ‘ circa 1919-1920"); this exhibition later travelled to Washington, National Gallery of Art, February - May 2006; and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, June - September 2006.
G. J. Dech, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA, Münster, 1981, no. XXXIX/1 (illustrated).
H. Bergius, Das Lachen DADA, Berlin, 1989, p. 142 (illustrated).
M. Lavin, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch, London, 1993, no. 29, pp. x & 45 (illustrated p. 45; dated ‘1919-1920").
R. Kuenzli, DADA, New York, 2006, p. 106 (illustrated).
R. Hemus, DADA"S Women, New Haven & London, 2009, fig. 43, pp. 106, 109 & 111 (illustrated p. 110; dated "1919-20").
M. Waldmeier, K. Makholm & H. Höch, Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds, Bern, 2023. p. 160.
HANNAH HÖCH (1889-1978)
Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl)
initialed and dated "HH 1920" (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed "DAS SCHÖNE MÄDCHEN HANNAH HÖCH 20." (on the artist"s mount); signed again, dated and inscribed ‘Hannah Höch „Das schöne Mädchen“ Fotomontage 1920 Leihgabe H. Höch" (on the artist"s label affixed to the reverse of the mount)
photomontage on paper laid down on the artist"s mount
Sheet: 14 x 11 ½ (35.5 x 29.2 cm.)
Artist"s mount: 14 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (37.8 x 31 cm.)
Executed circa 1920
