Frau mit blauem Kleid. Um 1925.
Watercolor and pencil.
Lower right signed. Verso signed and dated, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. On creme Progress wove paper (with embossing stamps). 64.9 x 47 cm (25.5 x 18.5 in), size of sheet.
Verso with a swift pencil sketch of the person depicted in the watercolor. Signed. [CH].
• Part of the Collection Deutschen Bank AG for 30 years.
• Very characteristic depiction in the artist's unmistakable style.
• The drawing on verso reveals the artist's erotic fantasies..

We are grateful to Dr. Sigrid Lange, Bonn, for her kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Montevideo/Uruguay.
Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich (acquired from aforementioned).
Collection Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main (acquired from aforementioned in 1990).

EXHIBITION: Aus Deutscher Sicht. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, November 17, 2004 - January 16, 2005.
25. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, April 30 - June 19, 2005, p. 138 (with color illu., no. 1).
Berliner Bilder. Sammlungen Berliner Bank und Deutsche Bank, Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin, September 09 - November 12, 2010.
Stadt in Sicht. Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, April 20 - August 4, 2013.

LITERATURE: Deutsche Bank AG (publisher), Man in the Middle. Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 236f. (with color illu.).