Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s reclining nude Modell, a 1911 colour woodcut, 16 x 20in (40 x 50cm), one of the few copies where pale green was used instead of black and thus “of the greatest rarity”, sold for a quadruple-estimate €110,000 (£76,000); while Emil Nolde’s Diseuse im Roten Kleid (Entertainer in a Red Dress), a 1910-11 watercolour, 13 x 91/2in (34 x 24cm), was targeted by numerous written bids and five phone bidders before falling to a Berlin dealer for a treble-estimate €95,000 (£65,500).
Gustav Klimt’s chalk and pencil Sitzender Halbakt (Seated Nude), c.1910, 21 x 13in (53 x 34cm), attracted four commission bidders and eight phone bidders en route to the quadruple-estimate €52,000 (£35,900) paid by the French trade.
Pick of 27 works by Lovis Corinth, at €22,000 (£15,170), five times estimate, proved to be his 1894 watercolour and pencil sketch, 13 x 17in (34 x 44cm), Heimkehrende Bacchanten (Homecoming Bacchantes), for a painting of the same name.
Fränzi frenzy hits €130,000
Highest bid among the 158 lots of Impressionist & Expressionist works on paper in the Tremmel collection auctioned by Ketterer Kunst on May 5-6 was the €130,000 (£89,700), just over top-estimate, paid in the room by a Rhineland dealer against six telephone bidders for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Fränzi am Wasser Liegend (Fränzi Reclining at the Waterside, c.1910) in gouache, watercolour and chalk, 13 x 17in (33 x 43.5cm).
