Stillleben mit Blumen und Pfauenfedern. 1924.
Watercolor over pencil.
Dated and inscribed "Barcelona" in right margin. On cardboard (with watermark). 38.5 x 45.5 cm (15.1 x 17.9 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• From the small oeuvre of the early deceased expressionist artist.
• Shown in many exhibitions.
• Made in Spain, where Walter and Sonia Gramatté had emigrated to in 1924.
• Gaudy and filigree composition that testifies to the lighthearted life in the sunny south.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf.
Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Walter Gramatté, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1932, cat. no. 56.
Walter Gramatté, Commemorative Exhibition, 1932-1933, cat. no. 26.
Walter Gramatté, Ausgewählte Werke 1916 bis 1926, Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf, April 19 - June 6, 1996, cat. no. 70, illu. p. 92
Walter Gramatté 1897-1929, Kirchner Museum, Davos, and Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, 2008/09, cat. no. 56 (with illu. on p. 89).

LITERATURE: Ferdinand Eckhardt, Walter Gramatté. Bilder und Aquarelle, Winnipeg/Canada 1981, cat. no. A 179 (with black-and-white illu.).

Bright watercolor in good condition. Minimally discolored. Edges minimally scuffed in places and with a few small splits, one rebacked and minimally retouched.