AUGUST MACKE (1887-1914)

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£ 250 000
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30.06.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 990436
Lot 366 | AUGUST MACKE (1887-1914)
AUGUST MACKE (1887-1914)

Nackte Mädchen in der Barke

signed and dated 'A Macke 1911' (strengthened, lower right) and later dated '1913' by another hand; with the Nachlass stamp (Lugt 1775b; on the reverse)

gouache and watercolour, heightened with silver, on paper laid down on card

13 3/8 x 19 5/8 in. (34 x 50 cm.)

Executed in 1911





Provenance

The artist's estate.

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke [the artist's wife], Bonn, by descent from the above.

Wolfgang Macke [the artist's son], Bonn.

Galerie Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf, by 1952.

Acquired from the above, by 1957, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

Exh. cat., Macke, Aquarell-Ausstellung, Bielendorf, 1957, no. 103, p. 19.

G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 103, p. 278.

U. Heiderich, Werzeichnis der Aquarelle von Auguste Macke, Stuttgart, 1997, no. 143, p. 232.



Exhibited

Dusseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Paul Klee - August Macke, Olbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 1952, no. 34.



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We thank Dr. Tanja Pirsig-Marshall for her help in researching and cataloguing this work.
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