AUGUST MACKE
(Vestfalia 1887 - Champagne 1914)
Grosser Akt auf rotem Tuch
1912
oil and gouache on paper
62.7x49.5 cm
on the reverse signed, dated and titled
on the reverse of the mount stamp Nachlass, Lugt L.1775b
on the reverse of the mount other labels
Provenance
The artist's estate (with the Nachlass stamp, Lugt L.1775b; on the reverse of the mount)
Galerie Gunter Franke, Munich, circa 1920-1938
Galerie W. Ketterer, Stuttgart
Dr. Hoeschen, Bad Oeynhausen
Collection Ströher, Darmstadt, by 1955
David B. Findlay Gallery, New York, by 1968
Herbert & Natalie Kirshner, New York
Sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 19 May 2001, lot 13
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Private collection, Munich
Christie's, 2016
Private collection
Literature
G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 172 (illustrated p. 282)
U. Heiderich, August Macke, Aquarelle, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 160, pp. 236, 237 (illustrated p. 237)
Exhibited
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, August Macke, May - June 1920, no. 42; this exhibition later travelled to Wiesbaden, Neues Museum
Cologne, Museen der Stadt, August Macke, June - July 1947, no. 108
Trier, Werkschule, August Macke, October - November 1947, no. 33
Oldenburg, Kunstverein, August Macke, Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zechnungen, December 1948 - January 1949, no. 42
Bochum, Richard-Baltz-Haus, August Macke, April - May 1949, no. 44
Duisburg, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, August Macke, May 1949, no. 74
Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, August Macke, June - July 1949, no. 74
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, August Macke, December 1953 - January 1954, no. 84
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, August Macke, February - March 1954, no. 38
Braunschweig, Kunstverein, August Macke, October 1954, no. 129
Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunsthaus, Macke, 1887-1914, June - July 1957, no. 172 (illustrated p. 25)