“Haus in den Pyrenäen” (“House in the Pyrenees”)

Details

We would like to thank Renate Ebner, Estate of Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, for her kind assistance in cataloguing this work. The watercolour is registered in the estate archive.

Provenance:

Bassenge, Berlin 6 June 1998, lot 6129;

Private collection, Southern Germany;

Karl & Faber, 7 June 2013, lot 630;

Private collection, Baden-Württemberg.

Description

At the end of the 1920s, Heckel travelled to southern France and northern Spain, where he primarily worked with the watercolour technique. Heckel captured the wild, rugged landscape of the Pyrenees with its remote valleys and mountains powerfully and expressively, as in the present work.