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Lot 338 D

Hermann Baptist Hundt - Johanna Ey schreibt an Jacobo Sureda

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 3.000 € - 3.500 €
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Hermann Baptist Hundt

Johanna Ey schreibt an Jacobo Sureda
Circa 1930

Pen and ink drawing with brownish wash, over pencil on plain drawing paper (left margin perforated) 32.6 x 19.8 cm Framed under glass. Unsigned. Inscribed 'LIEBE [sic] JACOBO!' in pen and ink within the depiction. - Inscribed "B.H.Hundt" presumably by an unknown hand in pencil verso lower left. - Some traces of creasing running diagonally across the sheet corners.

As a man of letters and poet, Jacob Sureda (1901-1935) pertained to Spain’s artistic avant garde around 1920/1921, but was also accepted as a painter in Düsseldorf in the 1920s where, in the artists’ circles of Johanna Ey, he also met Max Ernst and Otto Dix. Johanna Ey visited him several times in Mallorca, where Sureda died of tuberculosis in 1935.

Provenance

Formerly Collection Johanna Ey, Düsseldorf; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 1990 (Galerie Remmert und Barth), 10 Jahre Remmert und Barth 1980 -1990. Ausgewählte Werke, cat. no. 93 with colour illus.