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3 - Bele Bachem. Bellachini Circus. One tempera drawing and ten ink drawings with watercolor. Circa 1940. Approx. 15 × 15 – 20 × 20 cm.
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Bele Bachem. Bellachini Circus. One tempera drawing and ten ink drawings with watercolor. Circa 1940. Approx. 15 × 15 – 20 × 20 cm. Auction start time: approx. 12:01 (Schedule subject to change) A charming series of illustrations, possibly intended as source material for a book project by Woldemar Klein Verlag, for which Bele Bachem worked as an illustrator for many years. - The delicate ink drawings with beautiful coloring depict scenes that are, in part, quite surreal: a seal performing acrobatics over a crocodile. - An elephant with braids and hair bows. - Acrobatics on a giraffe. - A Bellachini circus wagon with bulls and ostriches. - Trapezes with armchairs; a flying fish with a clown. - A circus grounds. - A trainer with two humps leading a Bactrian camel. - A flying fish with a clown and a trumpet. - The tempera drawing (flying clown in front of a circus tent) is mounted on foil, titled and signed there. - From the estate of publisher Woldemar Klein and his wife Ruth, Baden-Baden.
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Auction 34: Art & Books - Special Catalog: 20th-Century Artist's Books / Renker Collection, Part 2Auction house
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