Lot 331
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Max Liebermann
Schweinekoben, Wochenstube, 1887.
Oil on cardboard, laminated ob cardbooard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400 Sold:
€ 54,610 / $ 58,978 (incl. surcharge)
Schweinekoben, Wochenstube. 1887.
Oil on cardboard, laminated ob cardbooard.
Signed in lower left. With a fragmentariyl preserved label, twice with the label of Galerie Bruno & Paul Cassirer, no. 209 and no. 757 (titled "Schweinekoben") on the reverse. 50 x 64.4 cm (19.6 x 25.3 in).
• Study for the large studio version of the motif from 1888, which was on loan at the Nationalgalerie Berlin and exhibited at the Liebermann Villa.
• Characteristic motif from the early period in Holland.
• Made the same year as his key work "Flachsscheuer in Laren" (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
• Upon its exhibition at Galerie Gurlitt in 1888, the studio version was described as one of the artist's best works.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Amsterdam (1890).
Bruno Cassirer Collection, Berlin (since 1914 at the latest).
Family property of the aforementioned (passed on within the family until the 1980s).
Dr. Peter Nathan, Zürich (1988 at the latest, probably directly from the aforementioned family estate).
Gavazzeni Collection, Milan (acquired from the aforementioned).
Private collection, Germany (acquired in 2001).
Private collection Berlin (Christie's, February 10, 2011).
We would like to thank the family of Bruno Cassirer and Dr. Imke Gielen, Berlin, for their advice and information.
EXHIBITION: Werke deutscher Meister aus Privatbesitz, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, April 1915, no. 53.
Max Liebermann zum 70. Geburtstag, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1917, no. 82.
Max Liebermann zum 80. Geburtstag, Preussische Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1927, no. 28.
Max Liebermann, Neue Galerie, Vienna, 1937, no. 17.
Max Liebermann, 1847-1935, Kunsthalle Basel, 1937, no. 140.
LITERATURE: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. 1847-1935. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and oil studies, vol. I: 1865-1899, Munich 1995, p. 314, no. 1887/20 (illu.).
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Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin 1914, p. 242 (illu.).
Julius Elias, Liebermann - Corinth, in: Kunst und Künstler, vol. XIII, no. 9, May 1915, p. 411 (illu.).
Hans Ostwald, Das Liebermann Buch, Berlin 1930, p. 371 (illu. no. 190).
Karl Scheffler, Max Liebermann, Wiesbaden 1953 (illu. on plate 22).
Neumeister Auctions, November 22, 1988, lot 268 (illu. on plate 2).
Katrin Boskamp, Studien zum Frühwerk von Max Liebermann mit einem Verzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien von 1866-1889, Hildesheim et al. 1994, cat. no. 228.
Christie's, London, Impressionist/Modern Day Sale, February 10, 2011, lot 512 (illu.).
ARCHIVE MATERIAL:
Correspondence between Walter Feilchenfeldt and Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, dated 21.XII.1936 with a list of oil paintings, here no. 8 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 286/12, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
List of paintings by Max Liebermann, compiled by the Neue Galerie, Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, Vienna, dated 29.XII.1936, no. 49 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
Correspondence of the Parisian shipping company Wacker-Bondy regarding the delivery of the Liebermann paintings to Vienna, dated December 31, 1936 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 286/31, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
N.V. Amsterdamsche Kunsthandlung Paul Cassirer & Co. to Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, Neue Galerie, Vienna, dated January 5, 1937, list of loans for the 1937 exhibition, no. 8, Schweinekoben, for sale, net 2500,- Fr. (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 480/8, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
Oil on cardboard, laminated ob cardbooard.
Signed in lower left. With a fragmentariyl preserved label, twice with the label of Galerie Bruno & Paul Cassirer, no. 209 and no. 757 (titled "Schweinekoben") on the reverse. 50 x 64.4 cm (19.6 x 25.3 in).
• Study for the large studio version of the motif from 1888, which was on loan at the Nationalgalerie Berlin and exhibited at the Liebermann Villa.
• Characteristic motif from the early period in Holland.
• Made the same year as his key work "Flachsscheuer in Laren" (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
• Upon its exhibition at Galerie Gurlitt in 1888, the studio version was described as one of the artist's best works.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Amsterdam (1890).
Bruno Cassirer Collection, Berlin (since 1914 at the latest).
Family property of the aforementioned (passed on within the family until the 1980s).
Dr. Peter Nathan, Zürich (1988 at the latest, probably directly from the aforementioned family estate).
Gavazzeni Collection, Milan (acquired from the aforementioned).
Private collection, Germany (acquired in 2001).
Private collection Berlin (Christie's, February 10, 2011).
We would like to thank the family of Bruno Cassirer and Dr. Imke Gielen, Berlin, for their advice and information.
EXHIBITION: Werke deutscher Meister aus Privatbesitz, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, April 1915, no. 53.
Max Liebermann zum 70. Geburtstag, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1917, no. 82.
Max Liebermann zum 80. Geburtstag, Preussische Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1927, no. 28.
Max Liebermann, Neue Galerie, Vienna, 1937, no. 17.
Max Liebermann, 1847-1935, Kunsthalle Basel, 1937, no. 140.
LITERATURE: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. 1847-1935. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and oil studies, vol. I: 1865-1899, Munich 1995, p. 314, no. 1887/20 (illu.).
- -
Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin 1914, p. 242 (illu.).
Julius Elias, Liebermann - Corinth, in: Kunst und Künstler, vol. XIII, no. 9, May 1915, p. 411 (illu.).
Hans Ostwald, Das Liebermann Buch, Berlin 1930, p. 371 (illu. no. 190).
Karl Scheffler, Max Liebermann, Wiesbaden 1953 (illu. on plate 22).
Neumeister Auctions, November 22, 1988, lot 268 (illu. on plate 2).
Katrin Boskamp, Studien zum Frühwerk von Max Liebermann mit einem Verzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien von 1866-1889, Hildesheim et al. 1994, cat. no. 228.
Christie's, London, Impressionist/Modern Day Sale, February 10, 2011, lot 512 (illu.).
ARCHIVE MATERIAL:
Correspondence between Walter Feilchenfeldt and Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, dated 21.XII.1936 with a list of oil paintings, here no. 8 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 286/12, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
List of paintings by Max Liebermann, compiled by the Neue Galerie, Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, Vienna, dated 29.XII.1936, no. 49 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
Correspondence of the Parisian shipping company Wacker-Bondy regarding the delivery of the Liebermann paintings to Vienna, dated December 31, 1936 (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 286/31, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
N.V. Amsterdamsche Kunsthandlung Paul Cassirer & Co. to Dr. Otto Kallir-Nirenstein, Neue Galerie, Vienna, dated January 5, 1937, list of loans for the 1937 exhibition, no. 8, Schweinekoben, for sale, net 2500,- Fr. (Belvedere Research Center, Vienna, Collection: Archive Neue Galerie, no. 480/8, 121st exhibition Max Liebermann 1937).
331
Max Liebermann
Schweinekoben, Wochenstube, 1887.
Oil on cardboard, laminated ob cardbooard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400 Sold:
€ 54,610 / $ 58,978 (incl. surcharge)
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