Selbstportät

Details

ARTHUR SEGAL (1875-1944)
Selbstportät
signed and dated 'A. Segal. 1909' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
19 ¾ x 14 1⁄8 in. (50.1 x 35.8 cm.)
Painted in 1909

Provenance

Galerie Oppenheimer, London.
Private collection, Jerusalem (acquired from the above, circa 1955); sale, Christie's, London, 11 October 1995, lot 180.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited

Berlin, Gemälde Galerie, Ausstellung von Werken Zurckgewiesener der Berliner Secession 1910, May-June 1910, no. 43 (illustrated).
(possibly) Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein, no. 415.
(possibly) Kunstverein München, no. 589.

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Lot Essay

Arthur Segal, born in 1875 in Romania, moved to Berlin in 1892 where he joined the Kunstakademie. First influenced by the landscapes of Segantini he rapidly moved from a pointillist technique to a neo-impressionist style more in keeping with Vincent van Gogh with slightly longer, more detailed brushstrokes.
Together with Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Arthur Melzer, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Georg Tappert and others he founded the Neue Secession. In their first exhibition in 1910 he contributed five paintings. The present self-portrait was one of these five exhibited works and was illustrated in the exhibition catalogue.

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