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LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)
Lot 465 THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR

LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)

Mädchen im Waldbach

Closed4 March 2022

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LOVIS CORINTH (1858-1925)
Mädchen im Waldbach
signed and dated 'Lovis Corinth 1913' (upper right)
oil on canvas
37 3⁄4 x 47 1⁄4 in. (96 x 120 cm.)
Painted in 1913

Heinrich and Tony Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden.
Galerie Schloß Rimsingen, Breisach.
Leo Michelson, Paris, by March 1934, by whom placed for safekeeping on deposit at the Kunsthaus Zurich.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above circa 1960-1962; sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1992, lot 155.
Rolf Deyhle, Stuttgart.
Anonymous sale, Grisebach, 29 June, 2001, lot 16.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This vibrant yet delicate painting shows the wife of the artist, Charlotte Berend-Corinth, as she sits on a rock drying her legs. The scene takes place by the river at St. Ulrich im Grodnertal, in Tyrol, during the Corinths' second visit. Charlotte, wearing Tyrolean costume, appears unbothered by the raging stream in which she is sitting. Her husband, instead, is documented to have been much preoccupied for his wife during the painting process, exclaiming: ‘Nein, die Situation ist doch zu gefährlich, du darfst unmöglich da sitzen! (‘No, the situation is too dangerous, you can't possibly sit there!’)