Sale: 522 / Modern Art II, Dec. 11. 2021 in Munich Lot 465

 

465
Jeanne Mammen
Paar auf der Fensterbank, Um 1928.
Watercolor and pencil
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 112,500 / $ 121,500

(incl. surcharge)
Paar auf der Fensterbank. Um 1928.
Watercolor and pencil.
Döpping/Klünner A 404. Bottom left signed. With the former hand-written inscription "Paar am Fenster (Sonntag)" on the reverse. On paper, laid on board. 38.2 x 30.3 cm (15 x 11.9 in), the full sheet.
The watercolor was first released in the magazine UHU with the title "Liebespaar am Fenster", it was an illustration for the poem of the same name by Kurt Tucholsky, that was printed with his pseudonym "Theobald Tiger" on the same double page.
• Illustration for Kurt Tucholsky's poem "Liebespaar am Fenster"
• Tucholsky was fascinated by Jeanne Mammen's delicate watercolors and dedicated her a short declaration of love in the weekly “Die Weltbühne” in 1929.
• Intimate everyday scene that allows a peek behind the big city's shiny facade.
• Works by the artist are in renowned international museums and the Jeanne-Mammen-Foundation (Fundation Stadtmuseum Berlin) and the Berlinische Galerie, which has dedicated two grand retrospectives to the artist (1997/98, 2017/18).
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We are grateful to Mrs Cornelia Pastelak-Price, formerly 'Förderverein Jeanne-Mammen-Stiftung e.V.', for her kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg.
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart.
Private collection USA.

EXHIBITION: Jeanne Mammen - Aquarelle Paris, Brüssel vor 1915, Berlin 20er Jahre. Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, April - May 1971, cat. no. 50-
Jeanne Mammen, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, September 20 - October 20, 1971, folding leaflet without mention.

LITERATURE: UHU, Das neue Ullsteinmagazin, vol.-/issue number 5 1928/29, H 2, November, (with color illu. on p. 46).




465
Jeanne Mammen
Paar auf der Fensterbank, Um 1928.
Watercolor and pencil
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200
Sold:
€ 112,500 / $ 121,500

(incl. surcharge)