Lot 369
  • 369

Max Liebermann

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Max Liebermann
  • DÜNE BEI NORDWIJK MIT KIND (DUNE NEAR NORDWIJK WITH CHILD)
  • signed M. Liebermann (lower right) 
  • oil on panel
  • 49 by 60cm., 19 1/4 by 23 5/8 in.

Provenance

Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Theodor Behrens, Hamburg (acquired from the above 29th March 1908)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (on loan from the above 1919-24)
Karl Haberstock, Berlin (acquired in 1926)
Max Böhm, Berlin (sale: Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 1931)
Elsbeth Zoellner, Berlin (by 1937)
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (on loan from the above 1937-1941)
Stolen in Nazi occupied Holland
Stored at the Groninger Museum, Amsterdam (1950-2007)
Restituted to the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

Hamburg, Galerie Commeter, Max Liebermann, 1910, no. 28
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Max Liebermann, 1916, no. 24
Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Max Liebermann, 70. Geburtstag, 1917, no. 146
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Max Liebermann, 1923, no. 64
Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Kunst, Ausstellung der Sammlung Max Böhm, 1930, no. 38
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, Max Liebermann en Holland, 1980, no. 33
Katwijk, Katwijk in der Schilderkunst, 1995, no. 76, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Max Liebermann der deutsche Impressionist, 1995-96, no. 36, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Munich, 1996, vol. II, no. 1906/15, illustrated p. 678

Condition

The panel is sound. There are some areas of fluorescence at intervals to the top edge, as well as two spots to the lower right, probably due to an uneven varnish layer. There is a miniscule paint loss to the upper centre of the left edge. This work is in very good condition.
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