Auction 509 Part 2
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By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Nov 30, 2023
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
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LOT 131:
Maurice Utrillo
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Start price:
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12,000
Estimated price :
€15,000 - €20,000
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Helmut Kolle: Die Schauspielerin Rosa Valetti
KOLLE, HELMUT
1899 Berlin - 1931 Chantilly/Frankfurt
Title: Die Schauspielerin Rosa Valetti.
Date: 1924/26.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 81 x 60cm.
Notation: Signed upper left: Hügel.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Collection Joseph Breitbach, Paris
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Exhibitions:
- Galerie Bing & Cie, Paris 1926
- Galerie Jacques Bonjean, Paris 1932
- Kunstverein Hamburg/Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover/Städel Museum, Frankfurt a.M. 1952/1953
- Lenbachhaus, Munich 1995
Literature:
- Chabert, Philipp: Helmut Kolle, 1899-1931, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris 1981, cat. rais. no. 125
Helmut Kolle signed his early paintings with the pseudonym "Helmut vom Hügel" or "HvH." to distinguish them from his literary works.
- Depiction of the German actress and cabaret artist who appeared among others in Josef Sternberg's "Der blaue Engel"
- Characteristic work of Kolles of the 1920s with impasto application of paint and sketch-like outlines
- The portrait shows Valetti as the sophisticated, self-confident city dweller she was
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