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Auction 9 · Lot 126
Loose in original linen-backed boards, upper cover with hand-colored pictorial inlay.
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
SCHAMES, (FRITZ), SAMSON. Misrach. Portfolio of three etchings. One of 50 numbered sets, signed by the artist. Aqatint etchings each signed by the artist, two of which are noted “Artist’s Proof.”
Place
Frankfurt a/Main, I. Kauffmann Verlag, 1924.
summary
Provenance: From the Artist’s Estate.
A most uncommon portfolio by this German-Jewish artist. “He designed stage sets for several German theaters and for the Jewish theater. In 1938, he emigrated to London, and in 1948, to New York. An expressionist, he endowed whatever he painted with explosive spontaneity.” EJ III, col.604. See also Jewish Museum Catalogue (Frankfurt), Samson Schames1898-1967, (1989) pp.54-5
230x305 mm to.
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