[
outerOneHalf]December turned out be a very interesting month for fine art drawings. Apart from the sales at Christie´s and Sotheby´s, auctionhouses in Germany and France came up with a lot of opportunities for those who collect drawings. Lempertz and Artcurial presented quite extensive sales with many interestings lots. For example the sale of november the 30th at Lempertz, where a wonderful drawing by Giorgio de Chirico was to be auctioned, a portrait of Isabella Far. Lempertz in this sale also sold a drawing of a nude by Gustav Klimt. Their contemporary art sale only had a few lots with drawings. On the first of December two drawings by Georg Baselitz were sold together with a drawing by Joseph Beuys Der Tod und die Seele.[/outerOneHalf]
Bassenge, the Berlin auctionhouse, had a large sale with old master drawings, Dutch, German and some Italian. Their second part of the sale, with modern art, offered us drawings by German artists like Erich Heckel, George Grosz and a drawing by Kurt Schwitters, a sheet said to be part of the Z series from 1918. Sale: Alte und Moderne Kunst the 29th of November until December the 1st.
Artcurial in Paris came with an impressive range of drawings by french masters in their second part of the Modern Art sale on December the 4th. Here are works on paper by Chagall, Signac and George Seurat, whose Pitre from 1880, with an interesting provenance was estimated at ten to fifteen thousand euro´s. Another highlight was the drawing by Amedeo Modigliani showing the portrait of Conrad Moricand a sheet once acquired from the Moricand collection. It was estimated around thirty thousand euro´s, not strange for such a fascinating sheet. Unfortunately it remained unsold. The total sale had much to offer for art lovers, two drawings by Foujita and a wonderful study of a Spanish Lady titled Espagnole by Francis Picabia, a great sale for those who planned to purchase a master drawing.