Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Das Lange Gelbe Pferd (The Long Yellow Horse)
Auction Closed
November 19, 02:32 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Franz Marc
(1880 - 1916)
Das Lange Gelbe Pferd (The Long Yellow Horse)
signed with the initial M. (lower right); signed Fz. Marc, dated 1913 and titled (on the reverse)
oil and tempera on paper mounted on board
24 ½ by 32 ⅛ in.
61.3 by 81.4 cm.
Executed in Sindelsdorf in 1913.
William Beffie, Amsterdam, Brussels and Brooklyn (acquired directly from the artist in 1913 and until at least 1940)
Karl Nierendorf Gallery, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Harry Frank Guggenheim, New York (acquired from the above in 1954)
Nassau County, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1971)
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York (from the above)
Alois J. Schardt, Franz Marc, Berlin, 1936, no. I-1913-22, p. 165
“Marc Found in Animals What Humans Lack,” The Art Digest, vol. XV, no. 4, 15 November 1940, p. 20 (titled Yellow Horse)
Klaus Lankheit, Franz Marc, Katalog der Werke, Cologne, 1970, no. 201, p. 70, illustrated
Klaus Lankheit, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc: Briefwechsel, Munich, 1983, p. 235
Mark Rosenthal, Franz Marc, Munich, 1989, p. 155; pl. 53, illustrated in color
Claus Pese, Franz Marc: Life and Work, Stuttgart and Zurich, 1990, pl. 101, p. 186, illustrated in color
Andreas Hüneke, ed., Der Blaue Reiter: Dokumente einer geistigen Bewegung, Leipzig, 1991, p. 571 (endnote no. 192)
Exh. Cat., Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst and Munster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Franz Marc: Kräfte Der Natur: Werke 1912-1915, 1993-94, fig. 8, pp. 105 and 111; p. 112, illustrated
Marlene Baum, “Das RoB-Reiter-Motiv als Ausdruck des Geistigen im „Blauen Reiter”,” Das Münster, no. 1, vol. 50, 1997, p. 54
Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie and Cambridge, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Franz Marc: Horses, 2000-01, fig 187, pp. 225-26; p. 224, illustrated in color
Annegret Hoberg and Isabelle Jansen, Franz Marc, The Complete Works, vol. I, Munich, 2004, no. 214, p. 251, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Franz Marc: die Retrospektive, 2005-06, no. 74, p. 164, illustrated in color; pp. 317 and 322
Lucy Wasensteiner, The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition: Answering Degenerate Art in 1930s London, New York and Abingdon, 2019, fig. 8.1, n.p., illustrated (in an installation image of London, New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, 1938); p. 165
London, New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, 1938, no. 167, p. 33
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Franz Marc, 1940, no. 13
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Franz Marc Ausstellung, 1963, no. 161
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Franz Marc: Gemälde Gouachen Zeichnungen Skulpturen, 1963-64, no. 54
Berkeley, University of California Art Museum; Fort Worth Art Museum and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Franz Marc: 1880-1916, Pioneer of Spiritual Abstraction, 1979-80, no. 32, pp. 26 and 108; p. 89, illustrated
Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Stationen der Moderne: Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, 1988-89, no. 10/27, p. 336, illustrated in color
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