Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich 
Lot 124000022
Lot 124000022
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124000022
Anita Rée
Komödianten, Um 1918.
Watercolor and pastel over pencil
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 21,400 - 32,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Komödianten. Um 1918.
Watercolor and pastel over pencil.
Signed in upper center and titled in bottom center. Signed and titled on the reverse. 59 x 48.3 cm (23.2 x 19 in), the full sheet.
With a pencil drawing on the reverse that shows a portrait of the lawyer and friend Dr. Rudolf Hertz, probably from 1916. Dr. Rudolf Hertz (1861-1933) was the son of the lawyer and Hamburg senator Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (1827-1914) and the brother of the physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894), father of the hertz unit of frequency (symbol: Hz). Dr. Rudolf Hertz had a keen interest in art; in 1917, for example, he commissioned Georg Kolbe to create a figure in memory of his son Carl Heinrich, who died in the First World War ("Stürzender Flieger / Ikarus", 1917/19, unfinished). [CH].
• Sheet painted on both sides: with a portrait of the lawyer and friend Dr. Rudolf Hertz on the reverse.
• Made in the prolific time after Anita Rée had returned from Paris.
• Around 1918, she created a few children's pictures, which Rée united in a single scene in the present work.
• The artist adopted stylistic elements like asymmetry and deformation from Picasso's "Blue" and "Pink Periods".
• The children with their eyes half closed, gazing past the viewer with sadness and melancholy, reflect the forlornness typical of the years after the war.
• At the same time, the emotional world so characteristic of her figures is an expression of Anita Rée's unique personality and her emotional disposition.
• The painter was particularly interested in figure, form and expression: while the forms in the background are abstracted, the colors are delicate, muted and subdued.
• Elaborate watercolors of this kind are very rare on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Commeter / Commeter'sche Kunsthandlung, Hamburg (from 1925, with the label inscribed by hand and in typography on the reverse).
Private collection Schleswig-Holstein.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Ich kann mich in so einer Welt nicht mehr zurecht finden. Jüdische Künstler der Hamburgischen Sezession, Altonaer Museum, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, October 18, 1989 - January 14, 1990.
LITERATURE: Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Das Werk, Munich 2018, no. A 27 and Z 37a (each with illu.).
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Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin 1885-1933, Hamburg 1986, p. 273, cat. no. A 11 a.
Watercolor and pastel over pencil.
Signed in upper center and titled in bottom center. Signed and titled on the reverse. 59 x 48.3 cm (23.2 x 19 in), the full sheet.
With a pencil drawing on the reverse that shows a portrait of the lawyer and friend Dr. Rudolf Hertz, probably from 1916. Dr. Rudolf Hertz (1861-1933) was the son of the lawyer and Hamburg senator Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (1827-1914) and the brother of the physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894), father of the hertz unit of frequency (symbol: Hz). Dr. Rudolf Hertz had a keen interest in art; in 1917, for example, he commissioned Georg Kolbe to create a figure in memory of his son Carl Heinrich, who died in the First World War ("Stürzender Flieger / Ikarus", 1917/19, unfinished). [CH].
• Sheet painted on both sides: with a portrait of the lawyer and friend Dr. Rudolf Hertz on the reverse.
• Made in the prolific time after Anita Rée had returned from Paris.
• Around 1918, she created a few children's pictures, which Rée united in a single scene in the present work.
• The artist adopted stylistic elements like asymmetry and deformation from Picasso's "Blue" and "Pink Periods".
• The children with their eyes half closed, gazing past the viewer with sadness and melancholy, reflect the forlornness typical of the years after the war.
• At the same time, the emotional world so characteristic of her figures is an expression of Anita Rée's unique personality and her emotional disposition.
• The painter was particularly interested in figure, form and expression: while the forms in the background are abstracted, the colors are delicate, muted and subdued.
• Elaborate watercolors of this kind are very rare on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Commeter / Commeter'sche Kunsthandlung, Hamburg (from 1925, with the label inscribed by hand and in typography on the reverse).
Private collection Schleswig-Holstein.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Ich kann mich in so einer Welt nicht mehr zurecht finden. Jüdische Künstler der Hamburgischen Sezession, Altonaer Museum, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, October 18, 1989 - January 14, 1990.
LITERATURE: Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Das Werk, Munich 2018, no. A 27 and Z 37a (each with illu.).
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Maike Bruhns, Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin 1885-1933, Hamburg 1986, p. 273, cat. no. A 11 a.
124000022
Anita Rée
Komödianten, Um 1918.
Watercolor and pastel over pencil
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 21,400 - 32,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
