ALBERT BLOCH (1882-1961)

Lot 525
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ID 908380
Lot 525 | ALBERT BLOCH (1882-1961)
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£ 50 000 – 70 000
ALBERT BLOCH (1882-1961)

Kniende Gestalten

signed with initials 'AB' (lower right); dated 'FEBR'Y-MARCH 1914' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

54 x 40 in. (137.2 x 101.6 cm.)

Painted in 1914





Provenance

F.G. Macomber, Boston.

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; sale, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 19 June 1979, lot 330.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 February 1993, lot 86.

Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, by 1998.

Private collection, New York, by whom probably acquired from the above in 1998; sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 4 June 2011, lot 15.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern Paintings by Albert Bloch of Munich, July - August 1915, no. 9, p. 14 (titled 'Kneeling Figures'); this exhibition later travelled to Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Art Museum.

New York, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Concerning Expressionism: American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde, May - July 1998, no. 19, p. 102 (illustrated pl. 11, p. 39).



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