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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2018 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Classics of the 20th Century I | 814 | $****** - ****** | Hinduknabe |
paintings
128.5 x 80.5 cm (50.59 x 31.69 in)
Oil on canvas
Monogrammed in lower left (in ligature). Verso of stretcher with the artist's hand-written address and with a label with the inscription "Darmstadt"
Westend Galerie, Frankfurt a.Main 1974
Private collection Hesse
Private collection USA.
Private collection Northern Germany.
Karl Hofer - Karl Hofer, 1878 - 1955: Ölbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien., Frankfurter Westend Galerie 1974, no.1 (there dated "ca 1908")
Karl Hofer. Von Lebensspuk und stiller Schönheit. Kunsthalle Emden, February 11 June 17, 2012, (illu. p. 22)
2013-2018: As permanent loan at Hamburger Kunsthalle, where it was on display as part of the permanent exhibition.
Auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung - Der Indien-Mythos in der westlichen Kultur. MASI, Museo d'arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, September 24, 2017 to January 21, 2018 (illu. on p. 349).
Christoph Otterbeck, Europa verlassen: Künstlerreisen am Beginn des 20.Jahrhunderts, Cologe 2007, pp.187-195 (Karl Hofer in Indien (1910/11 and 1913).
"I finally found what I had been desperately looking for over years: Models in free and delightful situations" Karl Hofer in a letter to Theodor Reinhart from December 6, 1910
Hinduknabe. Um 1911 /12.
Oil on canvas.
Wohlert 222. Monogrammed in lower left (in ligature). Verso of stretcher with the artist's hand-written address and with a label with the inscription "Darmstadt" . 128.5 x 80.5 cm (50.5 x 31.6 in).
A charcoal drawing from 1911 with the same subject "Inder unter Palmen" is also in existence. Charcoal drawing 1911. (Karl Hofer. exhibition catalog Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin 1978 cat. no. 225, illu. on p. XXI).
This is one of Hofer's first paintings in which he attained his characteristic calm manner.
PROVENANCE: Westend Galerie, Frankfurt a.Main 1974
Private collection Hesse
Private collection USA.
Private collection Northern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer - Karl Hofer, 1878 - 1955: Ölbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien., Frankfurter Westend Galerie 1974, no.1 (there dated "ca 1908")
Karl Hofer. Von Lebensspuk und stiller Schönheit. Kunsthalle Emden, February 11 June 17, 2012, (illu. p. 22)
2013-2018: As permanent loan at Hamburger Kunsthalle, where it was on display as part of the permanent exhibition.
Auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung - Der Indien-Mythos in der westlichen Kultur. MASI, Museo d'arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, September 24, 2017 to January 21, 2018 (illu. on p. 349).
LITERATURE: Christoph Otterbeck, Europa verlassen: Künstlerreisen am Beginn des 20.Jahrhunderts, Cologe 2007, pp.187-195 (Karl Hofer in Indien (1910/11 and 1913).
"I finally found what I had been desperately looking for over years: Models in free and delightful situations" Karl Hofer in a letter to Theodor Reinhart from December 6, 1910
Called up: December 8, 2018 - ca. 16.21 h +/- 20 min.
