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Materials:

watercolour and pencil on paper

Size Notes:

9 5?8 x 12 3?8 in. (24.5 x 31.4 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Frankfurt, Kunstverein, August Macke, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, May - June 1920, no. 22, n.p.; this exhibition later travelled to Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, July - October 1920. Emden, Kunsthalle, August Macke: ‘Gesang von der Schönheit der Dinge’: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 127, pp. 191 & 288 (illustrated p. 191; image inverted); this exhibtion later travelled to Ulm, Ulmer Museum, February - April 1993; and Bonn, Kunstmuseum, May - July 1993. Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Auf Papier, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, March - April 1995, no. 117, p. 204 (illustrated p. 205; with incorrect provenance); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Berlinischen Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, May - July 1995; and Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, August- October 1995. Munich, Westfälischen Landesmuseum, August Macke, die Aquarelle, November 1997 - February 1998; this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, August Macke, March - May 1998, no. 89, p. 218 (illustrated p. 219).

Literature:

G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 434, p. 296 (with incorrect provenance). E. Pinder & G. Vriesen, Macke: Aquarelle-Ausstellung, exh. cat., Kunsthaus, Bielefeld, 1957, no. 434, p. 52 (with incorrect provenance). Galerie Wolfgang Wittrock, ed., Gema¨lde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik: Ku¨nstler der Bru¨cke und weitere Neuerwerbungen, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, 1988, no. 1 (illustrated on the cover). U. Heiderich, August Macke: Aquarelle, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern, 1997, no. 469, p. 336 (illustrated p. 337; illustrated again p. 143 and with incorrect provenance).

Provenance:

The artist’s estate (no. A115). Stefan Pauson, Bamberg & Glasgow. Washington Gallery [William Hardie], Glasgow, by whom acquired from the above. Woodbridge Company Ltd., Toronto, by whom acquired from the above. Galerie Wolfgang Wittrock, Dusseldorf, by whom acquired from the above in 1988. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.