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a set of six framed prints depicting various scenes in a forestthe cover of a book with an image of a skull on itan old black and white drawing of a man sitting at a table with a bookan old book with a drawing of a man in a wheel chair next to another man in a wheel chaira black and white drawing of a man in a costume with a sworddrawing of a skeleton sitting on a chair in a room full of sheepan old picture of a man sitting at a table with a bottle of winean old book with a black and white drawing of a man and a woman sitting on a benchan image of a picture of a man and a dog on a fire
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523 - Karl Friedrich Bell*
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Estimate €300 - €500
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Karl Friedrich Bell* (Vienna 1877 – 1958 Vienna) The Seven Deadly Sins, 1910 lithograph on paper, 46 x 31.5 cm all sheets signed K F Bell ESTIMATE €300 – €500 STARTING PRICE €300 Austrian painter and graphic artist of the early 20th century. Born in Vienna in 1877, died there in 1958. Studied at the Graphic Arts Teaching and Research Institute and, in 1897, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Known for his fine etchings, lithographs and woodcuts depicting Viennese folk life, including street scenes such as ‘Rabengassel, Alt-Erdberg’, musicians (‘Der Geigenspieler’) and rural scenes such as ‘Am Sonntagsberg’. He took part in the 46th exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1914, exhibiting bookplate designs. Related artists and terms: Vienna Secession, Institute for the Teaching and Research of Graphic Arts, bookplate art, Viennese folk life, etching, lithography, old Viennese street painting, Ferdinand Schmutzer, Rudolf Svoboda, Wilhelm List, Otto Demus PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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