Sale: 528 / Modern Art, June 11. 2022 in Munich Lot 400

 

400
Max Liebermann
Die Birkenallee im Wannseegarten nach Osten, Wohl 1924.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 80,000 / $ 86,400
Sold:
€ 250,000 / $ 270,000

(incl. surcharge)
Die Birkenallee im Wannseegarten nach Osten. Wohl 1924.
Oil on panel.
Eberle 1924/27. Lower left signed. 50 x 39.5 cm (19.6 x 15.5 in).

• The artist's garden on Wannsee is one one the most popular motifs of his late work
• For the first time offered on the international auctions market (artprice.com)
• Similar works are in public collections like the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum Wiesbaden or the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
.

PROVENANCE: Mrs. Balsen, London (until 1965).
Galerie Abels, Cologne (1965, verso with the gallery label).
Dr. Heinrich Schult, Essen (1965).
Private collection.

"The natural painter doesnt' just want to but has to paint what he sees, as he doesn't paint reality but the idea of reality: He paints subjective nature…“
(Max Liebermann, quoted after: Martin Faass (editor), Max Liebermann und Emil Nolde - Gartenbilder, Munich 2012, p. 40)




400
Max Liebermann
Die Birkenallee im Wannseegarten nach Osten, Wohl 1924.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 80,000 / $ 86,400
Sold:
€ 250,000 / $ 270,000

(incl. surcharge)