August Macke. Composition II (Susanna im Bade) - photo 1
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ID 1514984
Lot 10 | August Macke. Composition II (Susanna im Bade)
Estimate value
€ 40 000 – 60 000
MACKE, AUGUST1887 Meschede - 1914 Perthes-les-Hurlus


Title: "Composition II" (Susanna im Bade).
Date: 1913.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on sketching paper.
Measurement: 23.5 x 25cm.
Notation: Inscribed, dated and titled verso bottom: Coloured ink Composition II 1913. Here additionally with artist's estate stamp (Lugt 1775b) with the documented number 29.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Dr. Fischer Collection, Stuttgart
- Roman Norbert Ketterer Art Gallery, Stuttgart, auction 29 November 1955, lot 1622
- Dallinger Collection
- Walter Bareiss Collection, New York
- Museum of Modern Art (donated by W. Bareiss, 1957)
- Private collection, South America/Germany

Exhibitions:
- Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld, 1957
- Sala de Exposiciones Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas 1959

Literature:
- Heiderich, Ursula: August Macke - Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, cat. rais. no. 108, ill.
- Vriesen, Gustav: August Macke, Stuttgart 1957 (2nd edition), cat. no. 115, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Macke. Watercolour Exhibition, Bielefeld Municipal Art Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 115, ill. p. 20
- Exhibition catalogue Expressionismo in Alemania, Sala de Exposiciones Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas 1959, cat. no. 68


- August Macke: intellectual and artistic centre of the Rhenish Expressionists, member of Der Blaue Reiter
- Classical pictorial theme in a radically modern interpretation
- Harmonious composition with vibrant colours


"Ich habe alles, was ich brauche, und bin vollkommen glücklich, wenn ich malen kann, was ich fühle. ('I have everything I need and am perfectly happy when I can paint what I feel.')
(August Macke, 1911; quoted from: Ewers-Schultz, Ina: August Macke, Cologne 2015, p. 55.).
Artist:August Macke (1887 - 1914)
Auction house category:Modern Art
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