Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 217

 

217
Gabriele Münter
Helles Stillleben, 1910.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 175,000 / $ 189,000

(incl. surcharge)
Helles Stillleben. 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated "12.VI.10" lower right (scratched into wet paint). With partly stamped, partly hand-written estate-number "S 130" on a small label on verso. 60 x 45.5 cm (23.6 x 17.9 in).

Charming still life in an appealing composition from Münter's most important period of creation, which was characterized by a lucent coloring and the "picture in picture" as central subject.
Accompanied by a written expertise issued by the Gabriele Münter- and Johannes Eichner-Foundation, Munich, from 4 November, 2015. The work will be included into the catalog raisonné´of paintings by Gabriele Münter.

PROVENANCE: Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Galerie Hutton-Hutschnecker, New York.
Art shop Franz Resch, Gauting.
Collection Hildegard Auer, Upper Palatinate (acquired from peviously mentioned around 1970).

EXHIBITION: Gabriele Münter. 1908 - 1933, traveling exhibition, Bremen/Bochum 1933; Jena/Eisenanch 1934; Altenburg/Stuttgart 1935. Cat. no. 13 (with label on stretcher).
Der Blaue Reiter, Munich and the art of the 20. century 1908- 1914, Haus der Kunst München 1949, Nr. 265;Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 1950, no. 1902 (with label on stretcher)
Gabriele Münter, Oil Paintings 1903-1937, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London September-October 1960. Cat. no. 22 (with fragment's of a label on stretcher).
Gabriele Münter. Werke aus fünf Jahrzehnten, traveling exhibiiton 1950-1953, with stops at, among others Brunswick / Witten / Munich no. 17 (cat. Munich) and no. 14 (cat. Brunswick).
Gabriele Münter - Paula Modersohn Becker, ex. at Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, Hanover 1951, no. 81.Gabriel Münter, Murnau to Stockholm (1908-1917), Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 22 November - 30 December, 1961, cat. no. 20 (with label on stretcher).
Gabriele Münter, 1877 to 1962. Fifty years of her art. Paintings, 1906-1956. March-April 1966; Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York 1966, no. 30
Gabriele Münter, Kunstverein Hamburg, 9 April - 29 May, 1988 / Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 29 June - 21 August, 1988 / Collection Eisenmann, Aichtal-Aich, 3 - 25 September, 1988, cat. no. 33 with color illu. on plate XXIII.




217
Gabriele Münter
Helles Stillleben, 1910.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 175,000 / $ 189,000

(incl. surcharge)