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Riese und Zwerg
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Alfred Kubin (1877-1959)
Riese und Zwerg
signed 'Kubin' (lower right, in the margin); inscribed 'Riese und Zwerg' (lower left, in the margin); with Max Morgenstern collector's stamp (on the reverse)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
Image: 10 1/8 x 6 5/8 in. (25.6 x 16.8 cm.)
Sheet: 14 x 10 7/8 in. (35.7 x 26.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1930
Riese und Zwerg
signed 'Kubin' (lower right, in the margin); inscribed 'Riese und Zwerg' (lower left, in the margin); with Max Morgenstern collector's stamp (on the reverse)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
Image: 10 1/8 x 6 5/8 in. (25.6 x 16.8 cm.)
Sheet: 14 x 10 7/8 in. (35.7 x 26.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1930
Provenance
Maximilian Morgenstern, Vienna, by whom acquired from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Kubin, Das Blaue Auge. Humor, Satire, Tragikkomisches und andere Rosinen der Weltliteratur. Einband und Zeichnungen von Alfred Kubin, Berlin, 1930 (illustrated).
P. Raabe, Alfred Kubin. Leben, Werk, Wirkung, Hamburg, 1957, no. 401.
P. Raabe, Alfred Kubin. Leben, Werk, Wirkung, Hamburg, 1957, no. 401.
Special Notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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Cornelia Svedman
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