ARNOLD BÖCKLIN (SWISS, 1827-1901) - photo 1
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ARNOLD BÖCKLIN (SWISS, 1827-1901)

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04.06.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1226117
Lot 57 | ARNOLD BÖCKLIN (SWISS, 1827-1901)
ARNOLD BÖCKLIN (SWISS, 1827-1901)
Am Quell (At the Source)
signed with initials 'AB' (lower left)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
20 ¾ x 30 ¾ in. (53 x 78 cm.)
Painted in 1879.




Provenance

Von Heyl, Worms, 1887.
Freiherr Maximilian von Heyl, Darmstadt, 1898.
Hugo Reisinger, New York, 1909.
Kunsthandlung Hermes & Co., Frankfurt (Main),1907, where acquired by Frau Stella Reisinger, New York, 1914.
Her sale; American Art Association, New York, 13 January 1916, no. 144.
Frau Stella Reisinger, New York, 1916.
Jutta Anheuser, Bad Kruznach.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 16 October 1987.



Literature

(F. Pecht), 'Zu Arnold Böcklin', in Die Kunst für Alle, 1888, p. 24, illustrated.
B. Haendcke, Arnold Böcklin, Hamburg, 1890, p. 22.
H. A. Schmid, Arnold Böcklin III, München, 1897, Tafel 21, illustrated.
H. A. Schmid, Arnold Böcklin, Vorwort, München (1901), p. 62.
H.A. Schmid, Böcklin-Verzeichnis, München (1903), no. 291.
Exh. cat. Arnold Böcklin. Austellung bei der Kunsthandlung Eduard Schulte, Berlin, 24 September - 21 October 1905, no. 15.
H. A. Schmid, 'Zur Einleitung', in Berlin 1905.
K. Jaskulski, Der Symbolismus Böcklins, Czernowitz 1909, p. 28.
H.A. Schmid, Arnold Böcklin, Handzeichnungen, München 1921, 5.24 (text for no. 67).
F. von Ostini, Böcklin, Bielefeld, 1925, p. 65 no. 96, illustrated.
R. Andree, Böcklin 1977, p. 411, no. 334, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of Modern German Art, 1909, lent by Hugo Reisinger.
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst: Eine Reise ins Ungewisse, 3 October 1997 – 18 January 1998, no. 60, this exhibition then travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, 5 Feburary - 3 May 1998, and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, 20 May - 10 August 1998.
Artist:Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Romanticism
Genre:Nude art, Mythological painting
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe, Switzerland
Auction house category:Paintings
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