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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2012 | Sotheby's | London | The Gunter Sachs Collection Day Auction | 289 | $****** - ****** | Mädchen Mit Kopftuch Girl With Headscarf | |||
Feb 7, 2006 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art | 313 | $****** - ****** | Young girl wearing a head scarf |
paintings
46 x 37.5 cm (18.11 x 14.76 in)
oil on canvas
signed twice with monogram
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin & Düsseldorf
The Detroit Institute of Arts (acquired in 1929 as a gift from the city of Detroit. Sold: Christie's, London, 7th February 2006, lot 313)
Acquired directly from the above
Galerie Flechtheim (ed.), 'Einige Museumskäufe 1928-1929', in Junge Künstler, Berlin, 1929; Franz Roh, 'Detroit', in Der Cicerone, Leipzig, vol. 21, 1929, p. 479, illustrated ; Margaret Heiden, 'Neue deutsche Kunst im Detroit Inst. of Arts', in Museum der Gegenwart, 1932, vol. I, p. 16f, illustrated ; Parker Lesley, 'A Landscape by Carl Hofer', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, no. 6, March 1939, p. 6 (titled Portrait Head); 'Two painters show works', in Detroit Free Press, 19th March 1939; 'Hofer Landscape Gift to Museum', in The Detroit News, 19th March 1939; 'Hofer's Popularity, Begun at Carnegie, Grows', in The Art Digest, vol. 13, 1st May 1939, p. 15; Edgar P. Richardson, 20th Century Painting, Detroit, 1936, p. 42 (titled Girl's Head); Margaret Sterne, The Passionate Eye: The Life of William R. Valentiner , Detroit, 1980, p. 147; Gerhard Leistner, 'Nachgewiesene Museumsverkäufe durch die Galerie Flechtheim', in Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf, 1987, p. 133 (titled Mädchenkopf); Karl Bernhard Wohlert & Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer. Werkverzeichnis de Gemälde, Cologne, 2008, vol. II, p. 173, no. 861, illustrated
