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six different sketches of a man ' s face and a woman ' s facedrawing of a woman ' s face on a piece of paperan old book with a black and white image of a man on a surfboarddrawing of a woman ' s face in a black and white drawinga drawing of a woman ' s face on a piece of papera drawing of a man ' s face on a piece of paperdrawing of a drawing of a man ' s face with a pair of glasses on his facean old book with a drawing of a cat on it ' s coverdrawing of a man ' s head with glasses and a hata picture of an old book with some writing on itdrawing of a drawing of a man with a mustache and a moustachean old book with a drawing of a man ' s face on itdrawing of a woman sitting on a chair with her hands in her pockets
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547 - Siegfried Charoux*
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Estimate €200 - €400
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Siegfried Charoux* (Vienna 1896 – 1967 London) Set of 6 drawings 1| Portrait of a woman pen and paper, 25.4 x 20.3 cm 2| Man’s face Indian ink on paper 25.6 x 20.4 cm on the reverse: ink drawing of a seated figure 3| Face graphite pen on paper 25.5 x 20.5 cm 4| Face graphite pen/pen 25.5 x 20.4 cm 5| Man with a moustache Indian ink/paper 26.8 x 20.5 cm 6| Seated figure Indian ink/paper 25.6 x 20.4 cm ESTIMATE €200 – €400 STARTING PRICE €200 Siegfried Buchta, or Siegfried Charoux, was an Austro-British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and caricaturist. During the First World War, he made his first attempts at sculpture and became acquainted with the painters Robin Christian Andersen, Eugen Sturm-Skrla and Johann Kodanich, and later with Gustav Schütt and Broncia Koller-Pinell. Charoux turned entirely to sculpture in 1919 and began private studies with Josef Heu; from 1922 to 1924 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Hans Bitterlich. From 1923 to 1928, Charoux worked as a political cartoonist for the *Arbeiter-Zeitung* and other left-wing and left-liberal newspapers. He made his debut at the 1927 art exhibition with a design for a Robert Blum monument, which has not survived. In 1935, Charoux’s monument to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was unveiled on Vienna’s Judenplatz. In 1935, Charoux emigrated to London. In 1940, he was interned on the Isle of Man. A British citizen since 1946, he became an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1949 and a Full Member (R.A.) in 1956. He taught at the Royal Academy Sculpture School and received several public commissions in Great Britain and Austria. In Charoux’s work as a painter, watercolours and opaque paintings predominate in his early and middle creative periods. Towards the end of the 1950s, he experimented increasingly with acrylics. His preferred subjects are still lifes, landscapes (particularly Cornwall and Gastein), music, and studies of his sculptural work. His extensive body of drawings is dominated by figure studies and monument designs. Other artists and styles: Expressionism, Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, caricature, Charles Despiau, figurative art, portraiture, bronze, ink, realism, New Objectivity 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% (20% 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% 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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