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437
Lovis Corinth
Tochter Wilhelmine mit Katze Mizelonde, 1912.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900
Sold:
€ 31,250 / $ 35,312

(incl. surcharge)
Tochter Wilhelmine mit Katze Mizelonde. 1912.
Oil on canvas.
Berend-Corinth 516. Upper left signed and dated "1912 Lovis Corinth pinxit". 51 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in).
[KT].
• Next to Liebermann, Corinth was the most importnat German impressionist.
• Touching portrait of the daughter Wilhelmine (1909–2001) and her cat.
• The portrait was made on occasion of her third birthday.
• Portraits of family members are very rare on the auction market (source: artprice.com).
• White, blue and rosé in a bright harmony
.

Accompanied by an expertise from Prof. Hans-Jürgen Imiela (1927–2005), Mainz, dated March 16, 1994 (in copy).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Caspari, Munich.
Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich.
Presumably Max Fessler, Pforzheim (until 1926: Rudolf Bangel, May 11, 1926).
Collection Dr. Theodor Kiefer, Kaiserslautern (presumably acquired from the above).
Städtische Kunstsammlung, Gelsenkirchen (presumably acquired from the above in 1928).
State-owned (confiscated from the above in context of the 'degenerate art ' campaign in 1937, EK no. 11676).
Art dealer Bernhard A. Böhmer (acquired from the above on June 28, 1941).
Estate of Bernhard A. Böhmer (1945).
Wilma Zelck, Rostock (from 1945 tio 1952: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, estate administration for the heir Peter Böhmer).
Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above in 1952).
Private collection Bavaria.

LITERATURE: Woche im Bild, Berlin, 1925, no. 185.
Auction house Rudolf Bangel, Frankfurt a. M., Ausgewählte Werke der Malerei: u. a. die Privatgalerie Senator Max Fessler, Pforzheim [..], May 11, 1926, no. 25 "Kind mit Katze" (with illu.).
Der Kunstwanderer, vol. 7./8., Berlin 1925/26, p. 428, auction report Rudolf Bangel.
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, November 26, 1952.
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (EK no. 11676).




437
Lovis Corinth
Tochter Wilhelmine mit Katze Mizelonde, 1912.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900
Sold:
€ 31,250 / $ 35,312

(incl. surcharge)

 


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