Live Auction 3738Impressionist and Modern Day Sale Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection
Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Lot 1248

Max Liebermann (1847-1935)

Dame am Strand

Closed15 May 2015

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Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Dame am Strand
signed 'M Liebermann' (lower left)
oil on board
9 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (24.5 x 32.7 cm.)
Painted in Scheveningen in summer 1901

Dr. Karl Wilhelm Zitzmann, Erlangen, Germany; sale, Cassirer-Helbing, Berlin, 3­4 March 1925, lot 100.
Anon. sale, Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, 24 September 1929, lot 99.
Helcia Täubler, Breslau (1929).
By descent from the above to the family of the present owners, 1942.

Specialist note

In the summer of 1901, Liebermann travelled from Berlin to Amsterdam and then on to the fashionable Dutch coastal resort of Scheveningen. Once installed, aside from continuing with his series of paintings depicting riders on the coast, he found inspiration in the depiction of figures in front of the beach's picket fence bordering the sea. The seminal Tennisspieler am Meer (Eberle, vol. II, no. 1) is from this series, which Liebermann revisited in his studio in Berlin much like the present work.