Lot 56. Mela Muter (Maria Melania Mutermilch), Selbstportrait. Oil on canvas. 65.5 x 50.5 cm. Signed ‘MUTER’ in black upper left. – The formerly loose burlap canvas spanned to newer stretcher and with thin canvas underneath, re-use of old nail holes. Old retouching in lower centre of picture professionally visually reduced, loose colour particles stabilised. Partially with losses of colour. Provenance: Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (gallery label to canvas edge); Galerie Bargera, Cologne; Private collection, Switzerland. Estimate 30,000 – 40,000 euro. Lempertz. 06/04/24. Sold 34,000 euro

Dwa oleje Meli Muter w niemieckim Lempertz. Bardzo zniszczony obraz uchodzący za autoportret artystki został wyżej sprzedany od portretu nieznanego obecnie mężczyzny (płótno wyglądające na będące w bardzo dobrym stanie). Siła leży w tym kobiecym portrecie.

Lot 57. Mela Muter (Maria Melania Mutermilch), . Oil over preparatory chalk drawing on canvas. 100 x 66.5 cm. On strecher. Signed ‘Muter’ in mauve upper left, barely legibly titled ‘Portrait de Roudsouder’ [?] verso on canvas. – Barely legibly inscribed in handwriting ‘Portret Rudsuda[…] chiarau [?] Kommunist’ on paper label. – In very fine condition. Provenance Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (label on stretcher); Galerie Bargera, Cologne (label on stretcher); Private collection, Switzerland. Estimate 40,000 – 50,000 euro. Sold 33,000 euro