Sale: 459 / Modern Art I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 631

 

631
Otto Mueller
Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser, 1921.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 43,750 / $ 47,250

(incl. surcharge)
Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser. 1921.
Lithograph in colors.
Karsch 156 a (of c). Signed. One of 25 prints on this type of paper. On Japon. 33.5 x 44 cm (13.1 x 17.3 in). Sheet: 37 x 50,5 cm ( 14,5 x 19,8 in).
Published by Hyperion Verlag.

Mueller observed scenes of bathers like this one on his visits to the islands of Föhr and Sylt, as well as on the Flensburg Firth..Mueller's sheet, [.], is of the same quality as the works by his colleagues, the difference, however, lies in his more aggressive display of eroticism."
Heinz Spielmann, in: Die Maler der "Brücke". Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1995, p. 413




631
Otto Mueller
Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser, 1921.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 43,750 / $ 47,250

(incl. surcharge)