| Category: | Auctions - Fine Art |
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| Position: | Id: 26994853 · Catalog number: 03-06123 · Ware in house 2 |
| Termin: | Auction at 28.03.2026 · Begin: 15:00:00 (Balance time 1 days and 12 hours and 16 minutes) Preview: 17.03.26 |
| Limit: | 500,- € |
| Beschreibung | Walter Spies, 1895 Moskau-1942, 2 watercolors,# "Cercopidae #" 1925 and # "Ordo Coleopteronii #" 1925, were created during thestay on Java/Bali, below, signed and dated, water sign Concordia, paper browned and slightstained, 40x27 cm each; Spies grew up as the son of a diplomat in Russia. From 1918 in Germany he maintained friendships with Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix and worked at the theater and silent film. In the 1920s/30s, Spies stayed in Java and Bali in various ways and maintained a kind of insular-cultural center for prominent European travelers |