Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

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The Spirit of Colour: Property from a Private Collection, Germany

August Macke

Drei badende Mädchen (Three Bathing Girls)

Lot Closed

March 26, 01:45 PM GMT

Estimate

26,000 - 36,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Spirit of Colour: Property from a Private Collection, Germany

August Macke

1887 - 1914

Drei badende Mädchen (Three Bathing Girls)


stamped with the Nachlass stamp on the verso

pencil on paper

20.4 by 16.2cm., 8 by 6⅜in.

Framed: 45 by 39.8cm., 17¾ by 15⅝in.

Executed in Bonn in 1913.

Private Collection, Germany (sold: Neumeister Kunstauktionen, Munich, 16th-17th March 1983, lot 559)
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1984)
A gift from the above to the present owner in 2017
Ernst-Gerhard Güse, August Macke. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Munich, 1986, no. 302, illustrated p. 393
Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Zeichnungen Werkverzeichnis, Stuttgart, 1993, no. 1738, illustrated p. 495