Gärtner vor dem Haus. 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower left. Verso with the estate stamp, there barely legibly dated and inscribed. 78 x 62.5 cm (30.7 x 24.6 in).
Rear of stretcher with an old adhesive label inscribed "13729 Slevogt Gärtner" by hand.
• Paintings from around 1910 count among the artist's most expensive works on the international auction market. (Source: artprice.com)
• The work was part of this year's exhibition "Licht, Luft und Farbe. Malerei süddeutscher Impressionisten".
• The country house in Godramstein with its surrounding garden was one of Slevogt's favorite motifs.

This work's authenticity has kindly been confirmed orally by Bernhard Geil.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Kunstsalon Cassirer, Berlin (with the label on the reverse).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (presumably acquired at Carl Nicolai, Bad Kohlgrub).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Licht, Luft und Farbe. Malerei süddeutscher Impressionisten, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz, September 12, 2020 - January 10, 2021, and Gemäldegalerie Dachau, June 11 - October 10, 2021 (with color illu.).

"The eye is not an instrument, no mirror - it is a living connector into our organism. It sees what it seeks and won't see what it can't understand. The eye perceives with imagination, music, rhythm and befu."
Max Slevogt, 1928, quote from: Preface from the catalog of Slevogt's exhibition at Preußische Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, 1928