Lot 481
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481
Hans Purrmann
Früchtestillleben, 1935/36.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,000 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 26,670 (incl. surcharge)
Früchtestillleben. 1935/36.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in).
The work is documented in the Hans Purrmann Archive under the numbers 33 and 787. [AR].
• Alongside landscapes and portraits, still lifes were among Hans Purrmann's preferred genres.
• Powerful work with a composition dominated by the ripe splendor of the fruit.
• In 1935, around the time the work was made, the artist left Germany and took over the administration of the German Artists' Foundation Villa Romana in Florence.
• His still lifes can be found in important museum collections like the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Monastery Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (stored by Dr. Robert Purrmann, the artist's son, for safekeeping during the war).
Central Collecting Point, Munich (December 11, 1945 - April 28, 1948, no. 16455).
Dr. Robert Purrmann (reobtained from the above on April 28, 1948).
Dr. Hugo Max Collection (inscribed on the reverse).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Hans Purrmann zum 100. Geburtstag, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz 1980, cat. no. 48.
LITERATURE: Christian Lenz, Felix Billeter, Hans Purrmann. Die Gemälde II 1935-1966. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2004, no. 1936/06 (illu. in color).
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in).
The work is documented in the Hans Purrmann Archive under the numbers 33 and 787. [AR].
• Alongside landscapes and portraits, still lifes were among Hans Purrmann's preferred genres.
• Powerful work with a composition dominated by the ripe splendor of the fruit.
• In 1935, around the time the work was made, the artist left Germany and took over the administration of the German Artists' Foundation Villa Romana in Florence.
• His still lifes can be found in important museum collections like the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
PROVENANCE: Monastery Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (stored by Dr. Robert Purrmann, the artist's son, for safekeeping during the war).
Central Collecting Point, Munich (December 11, 1945 - April 28, 1948, no. 16455).
Dr. Robert Purrmann (reobtained from the above on April 28, 1948).
Dr. Hugo Max Collection (inscribed on the reverse).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Hans Purrmann zum 100. Geburtstag, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz 1980, cat. no. 48.
LITERATURE: Christian Lenz, Felix Billeter, Hans Purrmann. Die Gemälde II 1935-1966. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2004, no. 1936/06 (illu. in color).
481
Hans Purrmann
Früchtestillleben, 1935/36.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,000 Sold:
€ 25,400 / $ 26,670 (incl. surcharge)
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