AUGUST MACKE
Three Youths Bathing / Female Nude, Women at the Table | Drei Knaben am Wasser / Weibliche Akte, Frauen am Tisch Scene, 1912
Double Sided Titled and Dated. Recto: Goauche, Verso: Pencil on Wove Paper
Paper size: 25 x 36.2 cm. / 9.8 x 14.3 in.
This double-sided painting and drawing by Auguste Macke is titled in pencil ‘Tegernsee 1910 1912' and 'Knaben am Wasser 1911’, verso.
The paper also bears the inkstamp from the artist’s estate, verso "Nachlass Auguste Macke" (Lugt 1775 b).
Exhibited: Das junge Rheinland. Köln, Kunstverein, 1918 / German & Austrian Expressionism. New Orleans, Museum of Art, 1975/76, cat.no. 56.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist.
Private Collection, until 1957.
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 21.& 22.11.1958, lot 614.
Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (1974).
Private Collection, Northern Germany.
Exhibited:
1974 , August Macke. Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen‘. Düsseldorf: Galerie Vömel. cat. no. 59. (illustrated in colour).
Literature:
1. Heiderich, U. (1997). August Macke: Aquarelle Werkverzeichnis. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje.
Reference: Heiderich 376
2. Vriesen, G. (1957). August Macke, 2nd rev. edition, Stuttgart.
Reference: Vriesen 168 (Aquarelle) for the drawing. Vriesen 362 (Gemälde) for the painting.
Condition: Very good condition. Very minor retouches to the extreme left of the landscape composition. Very minor thin scratches, visible only in raking light. Remnants of hinging tape, verso.
The paper also bears the inkstamp from the artist’s estate, verso "Nachlass Auguste Macke" (Lugt 1775 b).
Exhibited: Das junge Rheinland. Köln, Kunstverein, 1918 / German & Austrian Expressionism. New Orleans, Museum of Art, 1975/76, cat.no. 56.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist.
Private Collection, until 1957.
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 21.& 22.11.1958, lot 614.
Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (1974).
Private Collection, Northern Germany.
Exhibited:
1974 , August Macke. Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen‘. Düsseldorf: Galerie Vömel. cat. no. 59. (illustrated in colour).
Literature:
1. Heiderich, U. (1997). August Macke: Aquarelle Werkverzeichnis. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje.
Reference: Heiderich 376
2. Vriesen, G. (1957). August Macke, 2nd rev. edition, Stuttgart.
Reference: Vriesen 168 (Aquarelle) for the drawing. Vriesen 362 (Gemälde) for the painting.
Condition: Very good condition. Very minor retouches to the extreme left of the landscape composition. Very minor thin scratches, visible only in raking light. Remnants of hinging tape, verso.
$ 95,000.00 Unframed
