Live Auction 11790Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper
August Macke (1887-1914)
Lot 278

August Macke (1887-1914)

Grosser Akt auf rotem Tuch

Closed3 February 2016

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GBP 98,500

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August Macke (1887-1914)
Grosser Akt auf rotem Tuch
oil and gouache on paper
24 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (62.7 x 49.5 cm.)
Executed in 1912

The artist's estate (with the Nachlass stamp, Lugt L.1775b; on the reverse of the mount).
Galerie Gunter Franke, Munich, circa 1920-1938.
Galerie W. Ketterer, Stuttgart.
Dr. Hoeschen, Bad Oeynhausen.
Collection Ströher, Darmstadt, by 1955.
David B. Findlay Gallery, New York, by 1968.
Herbert & Natalie Kirshner, New York; sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 19 May 2001, lot 13.
Galerie Thomas, Munich, acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Munich, by whom acquired from the above in 2003, and thence by descent.

Specialist note

According to the Catalogue raisonné of the watercolours by Dr. Ursula Heiderich, the figure depicted is probably Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, wife of the artist. As of the end of 1910, Macke lived with his family in Bonn, where he devoted himself to his immediate domestic and spatial surroundings. Throughout this time, Macke repeatedly paints his wife Elisabeth, whether reading, sewing or resting, and with their son Walter who was born in 1910.