Appraisily Check my item

Auction sale reference

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze): Kopf

Sold for €50,000 at Van Ham Kunstauktionen on Dec 4, 2025.

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze): Kopf auction lot image

Have one like this?

Upload a photo for a free check of what yours may be worth.

Lot description

WOLS (ALFRED OTTO WOLFGANG SCHULZE) 1913 Berlin - 1951 Paris Title: Kopf. Date: 1939/40. Technique: Watercolour and India ink on Brownish drawing paper. Measurement: 36 x 27.5cm. Notation: Signed lower right: WOLS. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Provenance: - Kay Boyle, New York - Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York - Collection Margarete Schultz, Great Neck - Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 100th auction, 8th June 1961, lot 99 - Private collection Cologne (acquired from the previous owner in 1961) Exhibitions: - New York, 1942 - New York, 1959 - Kunsthaus Zurich, 1989/90 - Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, 1990 - Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2002 - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2024/25 Literature: - Exhib. cat. WOLS. Pictures, Watercolours, Drawings, Photographs, Kunsthaus Zürich/Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf 189/90, cat. no. 136, ill. - Exhib. cat. Im Blickfeld: WOLS, Komposition 1947, Hamburger Kunsthalle 2002, cat. no. 7, ill. - Exhib. cat. Surrealism and Anti-Fascism, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2024/25, p. 661, ill. - Pioneering artistic genius between Surrealism and Tachism - Characteristic watercolour from the years of his artistic breakthrough - An expressive representation between dream and reality, fantasy and sensation Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue WOLS (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) Germany Nouvelle École de Paris Tachism Post-War Art Post War 1940s Framed Figure / Figures Works on paper Watercolour

Do not price your object from one auction record.

A signed appraisal checks whether this sale is truly comparable to your item before you sell, insure, donate, or divide an estate.

Get an expert appraisal