Sale: 522 / Modern Art II, Dec. 11. 2021 in Munich Lot 407

 

407
Gabriele Münter
Från Djurgårdsbron, Stockholm (Bei der Tiergartenbrücke), 1915.
Oil over pencil on board
Estimate:
€ 90,000 / $ 97,200
Sold:
€ 200,000 / $ 216,000

(incl. surcharge)
Från Djurgårdsbron, Stockholm (Bei der Tiergartenbrücke). 1915.
Oil over pencil on board.
Bottom right signed and dated. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. There also with the estate stamp and an adhesive label with the partly stamped and partly hand-written estate number "L 380" and inscribed "L 380" in chalks (barely legible). 29.8 x 35 cm (11.7 x 13.7 in), the full sheet. [EH].

• From the artist's Scandinavian period.
• Shown at the grand Gabriele Münter retrospectives at the Lenbachhaus in 1992/93 and in 2017/18
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Accompanied by a written confirmation issued by the Gabriele Münter- and Johannes Eichner-Foundation on November 11, 2021. The painting will be included into the catalog raisonné of Gabriele Münter's paintings.

PROVENANCE: Gabriele Münter- and Johannes Eichner-Foundation, Munich.
Private collection Berlin.
Private collection Switzerland (since 2013).

EXHIBITION: Gabriele Münter 1877-1962. Retrospektive, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1992; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. Main, 1992/93; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 1993; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, 1993, cat. no.140 with color illu.
Gabriele Münter. Malen ohne Umschweife, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, October 31, 2017 - January 13, 2018; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, May 3 - August 19, 2018, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, September 15 - January 13, 2019, cat. no. 81 with color illu.

"Münter is best when she captures an event in a couple of colors, just putting it together sort of naively and dropping details. Then she captures what we overlook and what is too quiet to be said."
Gregor Paulsson, Gabriele Münter, in: Stockholms Dagblad, October 20, 1916




407
Gabriele Münter
Från Djurgårdsbron, Stockholm (Bei der Tiergartenbrücke), 1915.
Oil over pencil on board
Estimate:
€ 90,000 / $ 97,200
Sold:
€ 200,000 / $ 216,000

(incl. surcharge)