Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000934
Lot 125000934 
Raumbeispiel
125000934
Otto Mueller
Zwei Mädchenakte, einer sitzend, Um 1925.
Watercolor and color chalks
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Zwei Mädchenakte, einer sitzend. Um 1925.
Watercolor and color chalks.
On wove paper. 67.4 x 50 cm (26.5 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• Large elaborate drawing from the sought-after 1920s.
• In a subtly nuanced yet powerful palette, the artist visualizes his lifelong pursuit of a harmonious unity between man and nature.
• The epitome of Otto Mueller's characteristic graphic style and stylized formal language.
• The depiction of female nudes in the great outdoors is considered a central motif in his oeuvre.
• Comparable works from the 1920s are part of important museum collections, including the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
PROVENANCE: Emmy Mueller, Berlin (the artist's sister, with a handwritten ownership note on the reverse).
Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Private collection, southern Germany (probably acquired in the 1980s).
Since then in family ownership.
LITERATURE: Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné, volume II (Drawings and Watercolors), Leipzig 2020, CR no. 1925/01 (with color illustration, p. 161).
Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and drawings (CD-ROM), Munich 2003, Essen 2007/2008, CR no. 290.
"The main goal of my endeavors is to express my perception of landscape and nature with the greatest possible simplicity [..]."
Otto Mueller, in: exhib. cat. Otto Mueller, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, April/May 1919.
Watercolor and color chalks.
On wove paper. 67.4 x 50 cm (26.5 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• Large elaborate drawing from the sought-after 1920s.
• In a subtly nuanced yet powerful palette, the artist visualizes his lifelong pursuit of a harmonious unity between man and nature.
• The epitome of Otto Mueller's characteristic graphic style and stylized formal language.
• The depiction of female nudes in the great outdoors is considered a central motif in his oeuvre.
• Comparable works from the 1920s are part of important museum collections, including the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
PROVENANCE: Emmy Mueller, Berlin (the artist's sister, with a handwritten ownership note on the reverse).
Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Private collection, southern Germany (probably acquired in the 1980s).
Since then in family ownership.
LITERATURE: Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné, volume II (Drawings and Watercolors), Leipzig 2020, CR no. 1925/01 (with color illustration, p. 161).
Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and drawings (CD-ROM), Munich 2003, Essen 2007/2008, CR no. 290.
"The main goal of my endeavors is to express my perception of landscape and nature with the greatest possible simplicity [..]."
Otto Mueller, in: exhib. cat. Otto Mueller, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, April/May 1919.
125000934
Otto Mueller
Zwei Mädchenakte, einer sitzend, Um 1925.
Watercolor and color chalks
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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