Am Morgen. 1931/32.
Lithograph in colors.
Döpping/Klünner D 21. Signed. On fine Japon. 34 x 29,5 cm (13,3 x 11,6 in). Sheet: 51,5 x 38,8 cm (20,3 x 15,2 in).
From the cycle "Die Lieder der Bilitis". Besides eight trial proofs, this is merely the second known sheet not marked trial proof. A true rarity.

We are grateful to Cornelia Pastelak-Price and Frau Jennifer Augustyniak, Jeanne-Mammen-Foundation, Berlin, for their kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Formerly collection Lo Schoenberner, Munich.

LITERATURE: Jeanne Mammen. Köpfe und Szenen Berlin 1920 to 1933, ex. cat. Kunsthalle Emden/Foundation Henri Nannen et al, 1991/92, cat. no. 142, p. 63, illu. 9 (different copy).

This sheet comes from the collection Lo (Lotte) Schoenberner in Munich. As of 1929 her husband Franz Schoenberner was chief editor of the magazine "Simplicissimus", in which some ninety works by Jeanne Mammen were published between 1927 and 1934. [CB].