ID 908449
Lot 477 | OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 400 000
Tänzerin mit Schleier, von einem Mann beobachtet
signed 'Otto Mueller' (lower left)
tempera on canvas
47 1/4 x 35 1/2 in. (120.1 x 90.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1903
Provenance
Gerhart & Marie Hauptmann, by 1903, and thence by descent, until at least 1982.
Simon Dickinson, London.
Private collection, Germany, by 2003.
Anonymous sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 5 December 2003, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
Exh. cat., Otto Mueller, Begleitbuch zu den Ausstellungen, Kunstmuseum, Ravensburg, 2014, no. 9 (illustrated).
T. Pirsig-Marshall & M.-A. von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller, catalogue raisonné, gemälde, Cologne, 2020, no. G1903/07 (21), p. 81 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Von der Brücke zum Blauen Reiter. Farbe, Form und Ausdruck in der deutschen Kunst von 1905 bis 1914, September - December 1996, p. 149 (illustrated).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Otto Mueller. Eine Retrospektive, March - June 2003, no. 10 (illustrated p. 24); this exhibition later travelled to Essen, Museum Folkwang, July - September 2003.
Berlin, Brücke Museum, "unmittelbar und unverfälscht", Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik der "Brücke" aus dem Brücke-Museum Berlin, January - May 2004, p. 258 (illustrated).
Apolda, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Von der Leichtigkeit des Seins, Otto Mueller, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Farbkreide-Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Briefe aus der Sammlung Karsch, Berlin, und einer Privatsammlung, September - December 2008, no. 40 (illustrated p. 26).
Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Expressionismus, Auftakt zur Moderne in der Natur, August - November 2008, p. 212 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Aschaffenburg, December 2008 - March 2009.
Zwickau, Kunstsammlungen, Einfach, Eigen, Einzig, Otto Mueller, Wegbereiter der 'Künstlergruppe Brücke' und deren 'selbstverständliches Mitglied', February - May 2012, p. 145 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Heilbronn, Städtische Museen, July - October 2012; Duisburg, Lehmbruck Museum, November 2012 - February 2013.
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Artist: | Otto Mueller (1874 - 1930) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Genre: | Nude art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Otto Mueller (1874 - 1930) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Genre: | Nude art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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