European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
Property of an English Private Collector
LEO PUTZ | ANTICIPATION
Lot Closed
June 18, 04:03 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of an English Private Collector
LEO PUTZ
German
1869 - 1940
ANTICIPATION
signed Leo Putz lower left; signed and titled In Erwartung on a label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
unframed: 100 by 90cm., 39¼ by 35½in.
framed: 122 by 112cm., 48 by 44in.
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Dr Kurt Schuster, Germany (purchased in the 1930s); thence by descent within the family
In an autumnal landscape, a young woman awaits her lover by the shore of a lake, her gaze filled with longing and expectation. Putz favoured the depiction of young women, often capturing them en-plein air elegantly dressed or bathing by a lake.
Leo Putz was born in Meran (modern day Merano in Italy), then part of Austria-Hungary, but as a boy he moved with his family to Munich. He studied at the Munich Academy, and from 1891-92 at the Académie Julian in Paris under William Bouguereau and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. Despite his academic training, Putz was far more interested in the avant-garde subjects and impressionistic forms of expression being pioneered by his contemporaries, particularly Gauguin and Renoir, which would inform his own work.