Blaue Frau. Vor 1919.
Oil on canvas.
Bruhns G 55. Signed in upper right. Verso of the stretcher inscribed with the artist's name, the date and the title, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 91 x 70.5 cm (35.8 x 27.7 in). [CH].

• Remarkably consistent provenance and exhibition history.
• From the important collection of Gustav Schiefler.
• Mastery composed scene of a striking emotionality.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (1933).
Collection Gustav Schiefler, Hamburg (1933 inherited from aforementioned).
Since in possession of the family.

EXHIBITION: First exhibition of the Hamburgische Secession, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, December 14, 1919-1920, cat. no. 49.
Anita Rée und Margarethe Vollbracht, Kunsthaus Lochte, Hamburg, September/October 1919.
Antia Rée, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Schabbelhaus, Lübeck, presumably 1920.
Kunstausstellung Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden, July 2 to late September 1921, cat. no. 435 (with illu.).
Anita Rée. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, June/July 1922.
Anita Rée, Versmannhaus, Hamburg, December 1926.
Neuzeitliche Hamburger Kunst, Albrecht-Dürer-Verein, Nuremberg, summer of 1927, cat. no. 192.
Presumably: Exhibition at Galerie Flechtheim, no catalog (verso of the stretcher with the note "für Flechtheim" and inscribed with an isurance sum).
Anita Rée, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, February 24 - April 19, 1987.
Drei Malerinnen der Hamburgischen Sezession. Alexandra Povorina, Alma del Banco, Anita Rée, 154th exhibition, BAT-Kunst-Foyer, Hamburg, May 17 - June 23, 1995.
Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Hamburg zwischen 1890 und 1933, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 21 - August 20, 2006, p. 116.
Anita Rée. Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, October 6, 2017 - February 4, 2018, cat. no. 15.

LITERATURE: Hans Leip, Kunsthaus Lochte, in: Neue Hamburger Zeitung, 24th year, no. 497, September 30, 1919, p. 3.
Hugo Koch and. Emilia Maetzel (editors), Der Gelben Posaune der Sieben, Hamburg 1920.
H. Mahn, exhibition at Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, in: Lübecker Zeit, 1921.
Hugo Sieker, Anita Rée, in: Neue Hamburger Zeitung, 27th year, no. 316, evening issue from July 10, 1922, p. 2.
O. A. Palitzsch, Aus Hamburgs Kunstsälen. Anita Rée, Heinrich Schmidt, in: Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 94th year, no. 302, evening issue from July 1, 1922, p. 2.
N. N. (Th. Sch.), Aus Hamburgs Kunstsälen, in: Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 98th year, no. 348, evening issue from December 17, 1926, p. 3.
Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin 1885-1933, Hamburg 1986, cat. no. G47, pp. 260f. (with illu., p. 49, plate 6).
Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin 1885-1933 (revised edition), Hamburg 1986, p. 61 (with illu., no. 59).
Christian Fuhrmeister, Anita Rée. Werk statt Vita, in: ex. cat. Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Hamburg zwischen 1890 und 1933, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 21 - August 20, 2006 (with illu., p. 117).
Thomas Auwärter, Kein Heimatrecht im Reich der Kunst? Anita Rée, eine christliche Künstlerin jüdischer Herkunft, in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, vol. 126, issue 2-3, 2015, p. 278 and pp. 285f.