Herschu (Herbert Schultz)

2-door saloon coachwork design by Alexis Kellner AG for Audi Type SS or Type T.

1930

Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbered ‘76’, in upper left corner, German copyright label on verso. [Berlin 1930] Finished in green with contrasting light green roof and matching solid disc wheels, presented against a silhouette of a grand palace, this imposing 4-door cabriolet was one of the more luxurious variant designs around the underpinnings of the company’s straight-8 engine and drive train. It evolved from the Single Eight, so-called as it replaced the earlier V-12 known as the Double Six. Founded in 1899 by brothers James and William Packard, the eponymous company was not only one of the pioneers of North American motor...

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PITCHER AND GRAPES Size: 55 x 73 cm (including frame) Gouache on paper A lively and brilliantly executed mid-century modernist style interior still life composition, executed in gou...