Max Liebermann (1847-1935)

Dame am Strand

Details

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

Provenance

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.

Literature

M. Eberle, Max Liebermann, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Olstudien, Munich, 1996, vol. II, pp. 528 and 575, no. 1901/19 (illustrated in the artist's studio, p. 529).
B.C. Gilbert, ed., Max Liebermann, From Realism to Impressionism, exh. cat., Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 43 (illustrated in the artist's studio, fig. I.19).

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Lot Essay

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.

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