Stillleben Metall. 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Berend-Corinth 440. Signed and dated in the image's upper right quarter. 77 x 50 cm (30.3 x 19.6 in).
[AM].
• Lovis Corinth's great virtuosity becomes particularly obvious in the impasto parts.
• Still lifes from the 1910s are among his most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com).
• Many of his still lfes from the 1910s are in important public collections like the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden (Berend-Corinth 512), the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Berend Corinth 465) or the Detroit Institute of Arts (Berend-Corinth 718).

PROVENANCE: Dr. Pater, Königsberg.
Councilor Lemmel, Königsberg.
Dr. A Sonnenburg, Berlin.
Gemälde-Galerie Carl Nicolai, Berlin (1930, with the fragmentarily preserved label on verso).
Galerie Franz Brutscher, Munich.
Galerie Abels, Cologne (acquired from the above: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett May 19, 1954, with the fragmentarily preserved label on verso).
Private collection.

LITERATURE: Angebot von Carl Nicolai an die Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1930 (SMB Zentralarchiv, Berlin, I. Nationalgalerie, Angebote von Gemälden 1930, ZA-I/NG 932, pp. 437 ff.).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 19th auction, May 19, 1954, lot no. 747.
Galerie Abels, Cologne, 1956, no. 34 (with illu.).