MAX LIEBERMANN | Strickende Mädchen (Girls Knitting)

Bruno Cassirer, Berlin (acquired by 1916; until at least 1923)
Private Collection (acquired in Berlin circa 1945)
Private Collection, Jerusalem (by descent from the above; sale: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, 4th October 1993, lot 10)
Galerie Klauspeter Westenhoff, Hamburg
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 1994

Bruno Cassirer (ed.), Kunst und Künstler, Berlin, 1916, vol. XIV, illustrated p. 319 
Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1923, illustrated p. 225 (as dating from 1887)

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount in two places along the verso of the upper edge and floating in the mount. All four edges are unevenly cut. The sheet appears to have been cleaned in places. This work is in overall very good condition.
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The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr Margreet Nouwen.