Sale: 522 / Modern Art II, Dec. 11. 2021 in Munich Lot 413

 

413
August Macke
Kapuzinerkresse und Apfel, 1908.
Oil on paper
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)
Kapuzinerkresse und Apfel. 1908.
Oil on paper.
Heiderich 89, Vriesen 77. Bottom right signed. Titled by a hand other that of the artist on the reverse. 32 x 34.5 cm (12.5 x 13.5 in).
With a presumably formerly larger gouache on the reverse.
• Between Paris avant-gard and "Blauem Reiter".
• Another still life from 1908, the "Stillleben mit Pfirsichen, Trauben und Weinglas" (Still Life With Peaches, Grapes And Wine Glass), is on permanent loan at Kunstmuseum Bonn
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection (1957).
Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne (1967).
Private collection Switzerland.

EXHIBITION: August Macke, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, June 6 - September 16, 1962, no. 28.

LITERATURE: Ernst-Gerhard Güse, August Macke, der Impressionismus und die Fauves, in: E.-G. Güse, August Macke. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen. Munich 1986, p. 26.
"Among all of us he gave color the brightest and purest sound, as clear and bright as his nature."
(Franz Marc 1914 about August Macke in his epitaph)




413
August Macke
Kapuzinerkresse und Apfel, 1908.
Oil on paper
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Sold:
€ 87,500 / $ 94,500

(incl. surcharge)