Auction House

Auction: Modern Art

05. December 2017, 6:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0268

Albin Egger-Lienz

(Stribach bei Lienz 1868 - 1926 St. Justina bei Bozen)

„Farmer with hat (the farmer in the center of the painting "Totentanz")“
c. 1920
pastel on paper on cardboard
49,5 x 44,5 cm
signed on the lower right: Egger-Lienz

Provenance

acquired in 1977 at the Kunstsalon Mag. Peter Kovacek;
since then private property, Austria

Exhibition

Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger Lienz. Das Gesamtwerk. Band II, Vienna 1996, cf. WV-no. Z 299, ill. p. 595 (drawing to "Totentanz", head of the person in the center, red chalk, Graphische collection Albertina, Vienna) and WV-no. Z 477, ill. p. 611 (head of the second farmer, pastel, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck)

Literature

Confirmation of authenticity by Mag. Peter Kovacek, Juni 1977, is enclosed.

Estimate: € 50.000 - 100.000
Result: € 83.200 (incl. fees)