Lot 18
  • 18

Max Liebermann

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Max Liebermann
  • Woman Sewing
  • signed M Liebermann (lower right)
  • charcoal on paper
  • 13 1/2 by 9 3/8 in.
  • 34.2 by 23.8 cm

Provenance

Arthur Rosin (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent through the family

Condition

The paper is hinged to mat board with archival tape. The paper has irregular edges and is light struck. The faint image on the verso is likely the result of a transfer of charcoal when the present work was placed atop a drawing of the artist's self portrait.
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Catalogue Note

The present work is a study for one or both of Liebermann's paintings of 1876 and 1877, each titled Nähschule (Arbeitssaal) im Amsterdamer Waisenhaus (Sewing School (Workroom) in the Amsterdam Orphanage) (see: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Munich, 1995, vol. I, no. 1876/ 30 and 1877/ 2).