Live Auction 13581Impressionist and Modern Art
Werner Heldt (1904-1954)
Lot 144

Werner Heldt (1904-1954)

Strassenzene

Closed3 March 2017

Estimate

GBP 8,000–12,000

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Werner Heldt (1904-1954)
Strassenzene
signed with the initials and dated 'Wh.30' (lower right)
pastel on paper
10 1/8 x 8 ¼ in. (25.7 x 21 cm.)
Executed in 1930

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7 October 1999, lot. 208.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

As Karl Ruhrberg remarks aptly `The hollow windows are inhabited by horror, they are ciphers of the emptiness and silence, which also hangs over the streets and squares, causes anxiety and  speechlessness like the sucking silence of the Manichino-guarded cities of a de Chirico or Carra.’ (K. Ruhrberg in: Exh.-cat., Werner Heldt, Berlin, 1968, p. 8).