Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 209

 

209
Gabriele Münter
Stillleben mit Holzpuppe (Klapperpuppe), 1909.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 100,000 / $ 108,000
Sold:
€ 131,250 / $ 141,750

(incl. surcharge)
Stillleben mit Holzpuppe (Klapperpuppe). 1909.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated lower right. Verso dated and titled. There with estate stamp and with an adhesive label with partly hand-written and partly stamped number "S 38 6" and two further labels numbered "2608" and "56". 38.2 x 46 cm (15 x 18.1 in).

On the auction market for the first time.
Accomapnied by a written expertise issued by the Gabriele Münter- and Johannes Eichner-Foundation, Munich, from 3 August, 2015. The work will be included into the catalog raisonné of paintings by Gabriele Münter.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate,
Franz Resch, Gauting
Collection Hildegard Auer, Upper Palatinate.

EXHIBITION: Naive and Outsider Painting from Germany and Paintings by Gabriele Münter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 26 March - 29 May, 1983, cat. no. 3, p. 110
Gabriele Münter, Kunstverein Hamburg 9 April - 29 May, 1988, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Hamburg 9 April - 29 May, 1988, Darmstadt 29 June - 21 August, 1988, Collection Eisenmann, Aichtal-Aich 3 - 25 Semptember, 1988, cat. no. 18 with illu. plate X.

LITERATURE: Publisher H.Friedel / Gabriele Münter- and Johannes-Eichner-Foundation, Das Münter-Haus, Hinterglasbilder, Schnitzereien und Holzspielzeug, Munich 2000, p. 50, illu. 45 (Schepperdocke).

Her love for folk art objects must be seen in connection with Gabriele Münter's interest in reverse glass painting. Objects from her collection appeared in still lifes made as of 1908. What is particularly striking is the loose relation between the objects in this work. The obligatory apples, which had inhibited the iconography of German post Impressionism since Cézanne's still lifes, are shown with a ceramics jug and a wooden doll which the artist combines in this work. In its dark and glowing coloring it calls reminiscence of works by Jawlensky.
The wooden doll, a 'Klapperpuppe' or 'Schepperdocke', is on display at the Münterhaus in Murnau today. It can also be found in other paintings, such as the still life "Kleine Figuren und Blumen" from 1933, which is in private possession today.



209
Gabriele Münter
Stillleben mit Holzpuppe (Klapperpuppe), 1909.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 100,000 / $ 108,000
Sold:
€ 131,250 / $ 141,750

(incl. surcharge)