Ernst Barlach

Wedel 1870 - 1938 Rostock

Der singende Mann [The Singing Man]

Bronze with fine, olive-brown patina.
Conceived in 1928. One of only 16 lifetime casts.
Height: 49.3 cm

Hans Bellmer

1902 Katowice, German Empire (now Poland) - Paris 1975

Désarticulation sur fond rayé

Oil paint, pen and black ink, pencil on canvas; 1958
65.3 x 65.3 cm

Sold to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carl Blechen

1798 Cottbus - Berlin 1840

Forest Landscape with a Resting Man in front of a Wayside Shrine

Pen and brush and black ink over pencil on paper; executed circa 1830-35.
171 x 274 mm

Eugène Boudin

1824 Honfleur - Deauville 1898

Marine au grand ciel

Pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard. Stamped with the monogram lower right in blue: E. B (Lugt 828); dated lower left in black chalk: 1860.
213 x 287 mm

Gustave Caillebotte

1848 Paris – Gennevilliers 1894

Le mur du jardin potager, Yerres

Pastel on paper.
Signed and dated upper right: G. Caillebotte 77.
435 x 590 mm

Carl Gustav Carus

1789 Leipzig - Dresden 1869

Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin

Oil on canvas; executed in the 1820s.
33.5 x 43 cm

Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Carl Gustav Carus

1789 Leipzig - Dresden 1869

A Swan among the Reeds, by Moonlight

Charcoal with white heightening on brownish paper laid down on thin board.
Signed and dated on a small piece of paper attached on verso: Zum 11. Septbr. 1852. Carus (fig.1)
228 x 191 mm

Sold to the J. P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Franz Ludwig Catel

1778 Berlin - Rome 1856

Portrait of Leo von Klenze

Oil on Card, executed on the 29th of February or the 5th of March 1824.242 x 167 mm.
Study for the painting "Kronprinz Ludwig in der spanischen Weinschänke zu Rom", Bayerische Staatsgemälde-sammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, München

Cima da Conegliano

Italy, circa 1459-1517

Madonna and Child in a Landscape

Oil on panel, circa1496-1499.
73,0 x 59,4 cm

Sold to the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Comte de Clarac

1777 - Paris - 1847

Forêt vierge du Brésil

Pen and sepia wash, over pencil, heightened with white. C.1816-18
617 x 865 mm

Sold to the Musée du Louvre, Paris

Lovis Corinth

1858 Tapiau, East Prussia - Zandvoort, Netherlands 1925

Still Life of Flowers

Watercolour and gouache on velin. 1923.
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink: Lovis Corinth Mai 1923.
480 x 605 mm

Lieven Cruyl

1634 - Gent - after 1690

View of the Piazza Navona in Rome with Sant’Agnese under Construction

Pen and red-brown ink over black chalk, grey wash.
335 x 492 mm

Sold to the Morgan Library, New York

Honoré Daumier

1808 Marseilles - Valmondois 1879

L’Amateur d’estampes

Oil on panel, executed c.1860-2.
24.7 x 30.7 cm

Jacques-Louis David

1748 Paris – Brussels 1825

An Antique Bed with Scenes from the Life of Hector

Grey wash over black chalk on laid paper.
213 x 387 mm

Sold to the British Museum, London

Edgar Degas

1834 - Paris - 1917

Étude de Nu

Charcoal and pastel on paper; executed c.1888-92.
Stamped lower left with the red signature stamp of the estate (Lugt 658).
558 x 368 mm

Sold to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Sonia Delaunay

1885 Odessa - Paris 1979

Rythme coloré

Gouache over pencil on card; executed 1950.
Signed in pencil: Sonia Delaunay.
680 x 345 mm

André Derain

1880 Chatou - Garches 1954

Le Pont à Chatou

Watercolour. Signed lower right: a. Derain; 1904-5.
483 x 590 mm

Carlo Dolci

1616 - Florence - 1686

Portrait of Teresa Bucarelli, the Artist’s Wife

Black and red chalk.
282 x 188 mm

Cornelis Dusart

1660 - Haarlem - 1704

Five Peasants in an Interior

Watercolor, gouache, and black and red chalk on parchment. Signed and dated, lower right, in black ink: Corn: Dusart fe. 1690.
258 x 310 mm

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853

Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen

Pen and gray ink with brown wash.
Signed with initial and dated: E. 1830.
215 x 160 mm

Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Anselm Feuerbach

1829 Speyer - Venice 1880

Study of the Head of a Young Roman [Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco]

Oil on canvas; executed c.1857.
43.7 x 62.7 cm

Caspar David Friedrich

1774 Greifswald – Dresden 1840

The Ruins of Eldena Monastery, View of the High West Facade, as Seen from the East

Brown sepia wash over pencil on laid paper.
Dated in the lower right: den 2t. Juni 1801.
203 x 226 mm

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

1727 Sudbury - London 1788

Wooded Landscape with Figures, Horse and Shed

Black chalk and grey washes, heightened with white; executed in the early 1780s.
Stamped with Earl of Warwick’s collector mark
280 x 355 mm

Sold to the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen

Alberto Giacometti

1901 Borgonovo – Chur 1966

Étude d’après la tête de la déesse Mut, [Egyptian Museum, Cairo]

Pen and black ink on notepaper.
269 x 209 mm

Sold to the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Alberto Giacometti

1901 Borgonovo - Chur 1966

Tête d’Annette

Pencil on wove paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Alberto Giacometti 1959.
502 x 328 mm

Julio González

1876 Barcelona – Arcueil nr. Paris 1942

Personnage

Watercolour, pen and black ink over pencil.
Monogrammed and dated: j. G. 10-I-41.
313 x 240 mm

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

1746 Fuendetodos - Bordeaux 1828

Portrait of the painter Cesar Arbasía

Red chalk on laid paper
Inscribed in red chalk: Cesar Arbasia. / Pint.
174 x 126 mm

Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - Copenhagen - 1916

A Group of Trees - Landscape on the ‘Kongevejen’ near Gentofte

Black chalk on laid paper. Executed in 1892.
210 x 285 mm

Sold to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Vilhelm Hammershøi

1864 - Copenhagen - 1916

Gaardlænge, Vejle (Barn near Vejle)

Oil on canvas; executed in 1883.
35.0 x 37.5 cm

Adolf von Hildebrand

1847 Marburg - Munich 1921

Werbung [Courtship]

Terracotta relief. Signed lower right with the monogram: AH; executed c.1886.
One of only two known versions in terracotta.

Ferdinand Hodler

1853 Bern - Geneva 1918

Giulia Leonardi

Oil on canvas; executed c. 1910-11.
Signed: F. Hodler
45,0 x 40,5 cm

Victor Hugo

1802 Besançon - Paris 1885

Landscape with Ruins

Brown ink and brown wash on envelope paper;
executed c.1847-51.
97 x 262 mm

Sold to the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunst-sammlungen

R. B. Kitaj, R.A.

1932 Cleveland – Los Angeles 2007

Portrait of Philip Roth

Charcoal on paper; executed 1985.
775 x 570 mm

Sold to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Paul Klee

1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940

Morgen Grau

Watercolour and gouache on paper, laid down on the artist’s mount.
Signed: Klee lower left, dated, numbered and titled on the mount: 1932 / B 4 / Morgen Grau.
332 x 405 mm (mount 440 x 505 mm)

Paul Klee

1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940

Geister des Theaters

Watercolour on paper, mounted by the artist on card; 1939.
Signed upper right: Klee; dated on the mount lower centre below the border mark and inscribed with the work catalogue number and title: 1939/19 Geister des Theaters.
270 x 210 mm (mount: 428 x 318 mm)

Max Klinger

1857 Leipzig - Großjena 1920

Im Park [The Amorous Couple]

Pen, black chalk and ink heightened with white on paper. Signed M.K. and dated lower left (18)87.
416 x 251 mm

Sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Christoph Heinrich Kniep

1755 Hildesheim - Naples 1825

The Bay of Naples seen from Posillipo, in the Background Vesuvius

Pen and brown ink, brown wash,
executed between 1787 and 1799
645 x 885 mm

Joseph Anton Koch

Obergiblen 1768 - 1839 Rome

Southern Mountain Landscape

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, heightened with white. Executed c. 1799. Signed in the lower right margin: J. Koch.
560 x 823 mm

Sold to the National Gallery, Ottawa

Max Liebermann

1847 - Berlin - 1935

Boys Bathing near Bad Kösen

Watercolour and gouache on paper; c. 1895.
Signed lower left in pen and ink: M. Liebermann.
500 x 652 mm

Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago

Adolph von Menzel

1815 Breslau – Berlin 1905

Man Asleep in Baroque Costume (Portrait of Menzel’s Brother Richard)

Black and white chalk on brown paper.
Signed with initials and dated: A. M. 54.
241 x 183 mm

Adolph von Menzel

1815 Breslau - Berlin 1905

Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile

Carpenter’s pencil, with stumping, on paper watermarked J. Whatman. 1894
Signed lower right and dated: A. Menzel / 94
416 x 290 mm

Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago

Achille-Etna Michallon

1796 - Paris - 1822

View of the Villa Medici and Sta Trinità dei Monti

Pencil. Signed and dated: michallon Roma 1819
285 x 275 mm

Sold to The Art Institute of Chicago

Emil Nolde

1867 Nolde – Seebüll 1956

Woman in a Black Hat

Watercolour on lightly grained buff paper; 1918.
Signed upper right in pen and dark brown ink: Nolde.
450 x 301 mm

Emil Nolde

1867 Nolde i. Holstein - Seebüll 1956

Herbstblumen [Autumn Flowers]

Oil on canvas; painted in 1931.
Signed in the lower right: Emil Nolde; signed and
inscribed on the stretcher: Emil Nolde, Herbstblumen (C)
73,9 x 100,4 cm

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

1789 - Lübeck - 1869

Germania and Italia

Pencil on paper laid down on board,
composed of 9 sheets
952 x 1086 mm

Sold to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

Pablo Picasso

1881 Málaga - Mougins 1973

Buste de Femme

Pencil and ink on paper; 1903.
Dated on the reverse (by the artist’s father): 23 Mayo 1903.
232 x 172 mm

Odilon Redon

1840 Bordeaux - Paris 1916

Pensées dans un vase

Pastel on paper.
Signed lower left: Odilon Redon.
623 x 482 mm

Sold to a private collection, France

Anita Rée

1885 Hamburg - Kampen/Sylt 1933

Weiße Bäume, Positano

Öl auf Leinwand. Unten rechts monogrammiert: AR
71 x 80,5 cm

Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Christian Rohlfs

1849 Niendorf, Holstein - Hagen 1938

Birkenwald [Birch Trees on a Hillside]

Oil on canvas, 1907.
Signed lower right and dated: C Rohlfs 7
51.5 x 72.5 cm

Félicien Rops

1833 Namur - Essonnes 1898

À un dîner d’athées [At a Dinner of Atheists]

Graphite and pencil with stomping, brown pastel, heightened with white on prepared paper. Executed c.1879-85. Signed and inscribed at the lower left: F. Rops / 1er dessin; titled at the upper left: A UN DINER D’ATHÉES.
305 x 220 mm

Philipp Otto Runge

1777 Wolgast - Hamburg 1810

Zeichnende Hände [Hands Drawing]

Black chalk with white heightening on white paper with the watermark: Greifswald Academie;
executed in 1798
205 x 310 mm

John Russell, R.A.

1745 Guildford – Hall 1806

Portrait of Francesco Bartolozzi, R. A. (1727-1815)

Pastel. 1789.
Indistinctly inscribed and dated [Fran]cesco […] / J. Russell 1789 (on a label attached to the backboard). 598 x 445 mm

Sold to the Musée du Louvre, Paris

Georges Seurat

1859 - Paris - 1891

Femme assise bas

Conté crayon on paper; executed c. 1883.
320 x 243 mm

Bertel Thorvaldsen

1770 - Copenhagen - 1844

Chiron Teaching Achilles to Shoot with the Bow, after 1810

Black crayon heightened with white on brownish paper. Signed: A [Alberto] Thorvaldsen Fecit.
On the original mount.
370 x 430 mm

Sold to the Art Institute of Chicago

Jan Toorop

1858 Poerworedjo, Java – The Hague 1928

Self-Portrait

Chalk, watercolour, gold on wove paper; circa 1883.
310 x 248 mm

Sold to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696 Venice - Madrid 1770

The Holy Family resting on the Flight into Egypt

Black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper.
284 x 197 mm

Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

1727 - Venice - 1804

The Agony in the Garden

Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brown wash on paper. Executed between 1786 and 1790.
Signed at the lower right: Domo. Tiepolo f.
460 x 360 mm

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

1750 Toulouse - Paris 1819

Byblis transformée en Fontaine

Pencil and black chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper.
Signed and dated lower right: P. Valenciennes 1790.
390 x 524 mm

Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Félix Vallotton

1865 Lausanne - Paris 1925

Aïcha

Oil on canvas; executed 1922.
Signed and dated: F. VALLOTTON.
100 x 81 cm

Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

ÉDOUARD VUILLARD

1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) - La Baule 1940

Sous la grande lampe à Saint-Jacut

Glue-based distemper on paper mounted on canvas; executed in 1909.
Stamped at the lower right: É Vuillard (Lugt 2497a).
78.5 x 60.0 cm

Sold to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Éduard Vuillard

1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) - La Baule 1940

La salle d’étude aux Pavillons à Cricqueboeuf

Glue-based distemper on buff paper; c.1910.
Stamped with signature lower right: E. Vuillard (Lugt 2497a).
584 x 445 mm

Sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Federico Zuccaro

c. 1541-1609

David Accepting Tribute from the Conquered Nations

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white; c.1566. Preparatory drawing for the ceiling of the chapel at the Villa Farnese, Caprarola.
325 x 264 mm