Lot number 48 - Auction 140
'BEGRÜSSUNG' (1912)

AUGUST MACKE 1887 Meschede - 1914 Perthes-les-Hurlus, Champagne 'SALUTATION' (1912) Linocut on Japanese laid paper. Print size 24,2 x 19,7 cm, sheet size 36 x 31,5 cm (f. 52 x 40,5 cm). Inscribed, dated and titled 'August Macke 1912 Begrüssung' by Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke. Probably print sheet 8 from: 'Bauhaus Drucke - Neue Europäische Graphik, Dritte Mappe: Deutsche Künstler', Weimar, Staatliches Bauhaus, und Potsdam, Verlag Müller & Co., 1922. Slightly browned, light-stained, minimal traces of creasing. Framed in passepartout and behind glass. Literature: Söhn HDO 103-8, Peters III/8, Wingler III/8. Provenance: Private collection Düsseldorf.