Details
OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)
Flussufer mit blauem Baum (recto); Aktstudie (verso)
stamped with Nachlass stamp (Lugt 1829d, on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pastel on paper (recto); sanguine on paper (verso)
27 x 20 3⁄8 in. (68.8 x 51.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1924 (recto)
Provenance
The artist's estate and thence by descent in 1931.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 9 June 1970, lot 1101.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 26 June 1981, lot 564.
Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Dusseldorf, by 1981.
Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf, by 1987.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in 1988, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 February 2019, lot 227.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M. Heuser-Mantell & W. Wittrock, Wittrock 7, Dusseldorf, 1987, no. 48 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1922').
T. Pirsig-Marshall & M.-A. von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller, catalogue raisonné, drawings and watercolours, Cologne, 2020, no. P1924/42 (349), p. 155 (illustrated p. 154).
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Deutsche und französische Meisterwerke, October 1981 - February 1982, p. 21 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1922').
Dusseldorf, Wolfgang Wittrock, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, 1987, no. 6, p. 23.
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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