Sold
$508,000
Est
$400,000
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$600,000
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LIVING THE AVANT-GARDE: THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION, EVENING SALE PART I
ARTIST
Max Beckmann
Size
29 1/2 x 30 3/4 in. (74.9 x 78.1 cm)
Description
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LIVING THE AVANT-GARDE: THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION
LIVING THE AVANT-GARDE: THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1933.
Provenance
The Artist’s Studio
Erna Hanfstängel, Munich (probably acquired from the above after 1938)
Deposited (from the above) for safekeeping at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, where recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, and by whom transferred to, Munich Central Collecting Point (Munich No. 16027), on December 8, 1945
Returned to Erna Hanfstaengl on September 2, 1946
Adolf Wüster, Munich (acquired circa 1948)
Kunstkabinett Klihm, Munich
Dr. Henry Goverts, Vaduz (acquired in 1950)
Galerie Ketterer, Campione d’Italia (acquired in 1967)
Sotheby’s, London, April 12, 1972, lot 43
Modarco Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Private Collection, Germany (acquired in 1976)
Van Beveren Expertise, The Hague
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008
Literature
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst IV, Campione, 1967, no. 2, pp. 6-7 (illustrated, p. 6; titled Garten in Bayern I)
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst V, Campione, 1968, no. 4, p. 8 (illustrated; titled Garten in Bayern I)
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst VI, Campione, 1969, no. 6, pp. 14-15 (illustrated, p. 14; titled Garten in Bayern I)
Erhard Göpel and Barbara Göpel, Max Beckmann: Katalog der Gemälde, vol. I and II, Bern, 1976, no. 378, vol I, p. 259; vol II, p. 128 (illustrated, vol. II, p. 128)
Susanne Rother, Beckmann als Landschaftsmaler, Munich, 1990, p. 80
"Ich kann wirklich ganz gut malen." Friedrich August von Kaulbach - Max Beckmann, exh. cat., Schloßmuseum, Murnau am Staffelsee, 2002, p. 89
Max Beckmann und Berlin, exh. cat., Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 2015, pp. 210, 215
Anja Tiedemann, Barbara Göpel and Erhard Göpel, Max Beckmann: Die Gemälde, vol. I, Ahlen, 2021, no. 378, pp. 456-457 (illustrated, p. 456; detail illustrated, p. 457)
Anja Tiedemann, Max Beckmann Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde, 2016–online, no. MB-G 378 (illustrated; accessed on September 22, 2023)
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Bern, Max Beckmann, Marguerite Frey-Surbek, Martin Christ, Fernanrd Riard, February 19–March 20, 1938, no. 13 (titled Garten in Bayern)
Kunstverein Winterthur, Max Beckmann, April 3–May 8, 1938, no. 15, n.p. (titled Garten in Bayern I)
New York, Spencer A. Samuels and Company, Expressionismus, October 22–November 16, 1968, pl. 46, pp. 98-99 (illustrated, p. 98; titled Garden in Bayern I (Kaulbach Garden in Ohlstadt))
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Die Ersten 15 Jahre, February 7–March 27, 1980, no. 21, n.p. (illustrated)
Dortmund, Galerie Utermann, Werke des Deutschen Expressionismus und der Klassischen Moderne aus 7 Dortmunder Privatsammlungen, September 1–30, 1995, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated)
Murnau am Staffelsee, Schloßmuseum, Max Beckmann. Abseits der Großstadt – oberbayerische Landschaft, April 3–July 12, 1998, p. 41 (illustrated)
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Meer dan kleur. Fauvisme en expressionisme uit de collectie van de Triton Foundation, April 11–September 6, 2009, pp. 30-31 (illustrated, p. 30)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Max Beckmann: The Landscapes, September 8, 2011–January 22, 2012, no. 35, fig. 11, pp. 30, 35, 134-135 (illustrated, pp. 30, 35; titled Garden in Bloom)
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Avant-gardes 1870 to the present: The Collection of the Triton Foundation, October 7, 2012–January 20, 2013, pp. 210-211, 538 (illustrated, p. 211; titled Garden in Bavaria)