Jun 04, 2009 - Sale 2182

Sale 2182 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HANS BURKHARDT
Reclining Female Nude.

Color pastels on light brown wove paper, 1983. 458x605 mm; 18x23 7/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection the estate of Raphael Soyer, New York.

Originally from Switzerland, Burkhardt (1904-1994) gained American citizenship and went on to study with Arshile Gorky. The two artists shared a studion in New York from 1928 to 1937.