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Property from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Franz Marc

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