Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2517BLocation: BostonDate / Time: September 24, 2010 12:00PM
Description:
Werner Drewes (American/German, 1899-1985)
Portrait of the Architect Leistikow, 1928, edition of 10 (Jentsch, I.140). Signed and dated "W. Drewes -28" in pencil l.r., monogrammed and dated within the plate, annotated in lower margin. Etching on paper, plate size 10 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (25.5 x 13.0 cm),matted, unframed.
Condition: Repaired losses and tears to left margin and just into image, pale toning and staining.
N.B. Hans Leistikow was an editor of Das Neue Frankfurt, an architecture and design journal.
Estimate $200-300