August Macke Lot n° 108

August Macke Illustration for Wilhelm Schmidtbonn "Help! A child has fallen from the sky." 1909 Pencil on paper. 12.4 x 20.6 cm. With the estate stamp (Lugt 1775b) on the backing card and signed, dated and inscribed in an unknown hand. Estate stamp and inscribed again by hand on the verso. - With studio-related creases, otherwise in impeccable condition. Heiderich drawings 437 Provenance Estate of the artist; since then in family possession Exhibitions Bremen 1964/65 (Kunsthalle Bremen), August Macke. Hand drawings and watercolors, cat. 215 (here dated 1906) Literature Werner Frese/Ernst-Gerhard Güse, August Macke. Briefe an Elisabeth und die Freunde, Munich 1987, p. 234, note 2 This sequence of characters are illustrations from the tragicomedy "Hilfe! A child has fallen from the sky" by the Bonn writer Wilhelm Schmidtbonn (1876-1952). The play premiered on February 28, 1910 in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater Berlin.