Live Auction 743819th Century European Art
Adolf von Menzel (German, 1815-1905)
Lot 31

Adolf von Menzel (German, 1815-1905)

Trinkender Kurgast

Closed23 January 2008

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GBP 11,250

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Adolf von Menzel (German, 1815-1905)
Trinkender Kurgast
signed with initials and dated 'A M/Okt 84' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
8 7/8 x 5¾ in. (22.4 x 14.7 cm.)
Executed in October, 1884.

Joey and Toby Tannenbaum, Toronto.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 1994, lot 326.
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, by 1995.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

Adolf von Menzel's drawings are noted for their extremely strong and confident handling. Most of his charcoal figurative drawings are studies for more finished works, including the present lot which is a preparatory drawing for Am Wärmekessel in Bad Kissingen (see fig. 1). Menzel executed a study of the same subject in a sketch book he used between 1884 and 1892, which is now in the Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.