Live Auction 19569Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
MAX LIEBERMANN (1847-1935)
Lot 306 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, GERMANY

MAX LIEBERMANN (1847-1935)

Birkenallee im Wannseegarten

Closed1 July 2021

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GBP 32,500

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MAX LIEBERMANN (1847-1935)
Birkenallee im Wannseegarten
signed 'M Liebermann' (lower right)
pastel on paper
11 7/8 x 9 1/8 in. (30 x 23.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1918

Private collection, Germany; sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 26 November 1982, lot 998.
Private collection, Europe; sale, Christie's, London, 7 October 1999, lot 24.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present pastel depicts the garden of Max Liebermann's house, built for him in 1909, by architect Paul Otto Baumgarten, on the banks of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee. The same view appears in various, well-celebrated oil paintings (Eberle 1918/19-21 and 1919/24). Liebermann loved his villa and its garden so much, he decided to illustrate them on the header of his letter paper.