Sep 20, 2018 - Sale 2485

Sale 2485 - Lot 465

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
OTTO MUELLER
Der Mord II (Liebespaar II).

Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, circa 1919. 445x322 mm; 17 5/8x12 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, important German Expressionist lithograph.

According to Karsch, a significant part of the edition was destroyed during World War II, so the extant number of impressions is likely fewer than the 20 cited.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. Karsch 86.