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Käthe Kollwitz, Pietà, 1903, Colour chalk and brush lithograph, with mezzotint in the drawing stone, from the dark brown printing drawing stone and the clay stone for the background in blue-black© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Pietà

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) · 1903

CHF 1,100,000 hammer

≈ $1,141,470≈ £930,749≈ €1,088,566

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Lithograph · Prints & multiples all lithograph results →
As published: “Colour chalk and brush lithograph, with mezzotint in the drawing stone, from the dark brown printing drawing stone and the clay stone for the background in blue-black”
Category
Lithographs
Dimensions
45.7 x 62 cm, image; 47.6 x 62.6 cm, sheet size
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 276: Live Auction - Part 1 (276)
Date
June 17, 2022
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
106
Estimate
CHF 250,000 – — (≈ $259,425) (≈ £211,534) (≈ €247,401)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Dresden (from 1912)
  • Kunsthandelaar Johannes Henricus de Bois, Haarlem, there sold to
  • Private collection France
  • Auction Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 26 May 2006, lot 23, there purchased for
  • Private collection USA
Literature (4)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Knesebeck 77/III
  • Anna L. Plehn, Die neuen Radierungen von Käthe Kollwitz, in: Die Frau. Monatszeitschrift für das gesamte Frauenleben unserer Zeit, 11, 1903/04, Heft 4, Januar 1904, pag. 235
  • Exhibition
  • Amsterdam 1916, Stedelijk Museum, Catalogus der grafische tentoonstelling van Käthe Kollwitz, cat. no. 20

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