?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SCARCE GALERIE FISCHER SALE CATALOGUE (ENTARTETE KUNST.) Gemälde und Plastiken Moderner Meister aus Deutschen Museen. Auktion in Luzern am 30. Juni 1939, Galerie Fischer. 60 black-and-white reproductions (of 125 lots offered). Small folio, original textured tan wrappers lettered in black, spine defective, few creases and minor soiling; scattered light creasing to contents, prices realized written in red pencil next to entries, original entrance ticket still bound in, contemporary newspaper article reporting on the sale laid in. Lucerne: Galerie Fischer, 1939
scarce galerie fischer auction catalogue of degenerate art confiscated from German museums and private collections by the Third Reich. Many of the pieces had been among those exhibited in the traveling exhibition of Entartete Kunst, 1937 (the catalogue for which has been sold at Swann as recently as May 2011). Those works that were not destroyed appear for sale in this catalogue among other masterpieces. The top lot, at 175,000 francs, was Vincent van Gogh's famous self portrait, removed from the Munich State Gallery, followed from Picasso's Two Harlequins (Acrobate et jeune arlequin) for 80,000 francs. Among the other lots were works by Beckmann, Chagall, Corinth, Derain, Dix, Ensor, Feininger, Grosz, Gauguin, Heckel, Klee, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Lehmbruck, Liebermann, Macke, Marc, Modersohn, Modigliani, Otto Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt Rottluff, and Vlaminck.
