Sale: 459 / Modern Art I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 606

 

606
Max Liebermann
Weg im Wald, Um 1907.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 24,000 / $ 25,920
Sold:
€ 27,500 / $ 29,700

(incl. surcharge)
Weg im Wald. Um 1907.
Color Pastel.
Signed in lower right. On brownish paper. 10.3 x 17.5 cm (4 x 6.8 in) , the full sheet.

This work’s authenticity has kindly been confirmed orally by Drs. Margreet Nouwen, Berlin. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper.

PROVENANCE: Collection Bruno and Sadie Adriani, Berlin and Monterey/California (the jurist and art collector Bruno Adriani was active as lawyer in Potsdam as of 1910. Over the years he compiled an extensive collections of paintings. After his move to Geneva at the end of 1930s and his emigration in 1936 he bequeathed a large part to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in the 1960s).
Rose Marie Chamberlin, Los Angeles (inherited from aforementioned).
Private collection Los Angeles (gifted from aforementioend between 1985 and 1989).

"Time and again the pure and primal in nature must be seen and found from a new and pristine perspective…“
Max Liebermann, in a speech on occasion of the opening of the exhibition at the Academy of Arts,'Goethe und seine Welt‘, March 1932, quote after: Max Liebermann, "Die Phantasie in der Malerei. Schriften und Reden, Berlin 1983, p. 292.




606
Max Liebermann
Weg im Wald, Um 1907.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 24,000 / $ 25,920
Sold:
€ 27,500 / $ 29,700

(incl. surcharge)