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Sich waschender Akt
Details
OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)
Sich waschender Akt
signed 'Otto Mueller' (lower left)
watercolour, pastel and pen and ink on buff paper
26 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (68 x 50 cm.)
Executed circa 1920
Sich waschender Akt
signed 'Otto Mueller' (lower left)
watercolour, pastel and pen and ink on buff paper
26 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (68 x 50 cm.)
Executed circa 1920
Provenance
(Possibly) Josef Mueller [the artist's son], by 1936.
Anonymous sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 14 June 1974, lot 743.
Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 4 June 1976, lot 1125.
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, by 1976.
Diethelm Bernd Hoener, New York, by 1976, and thence by descent; his estate sale, Phillips, New York, 5 November 2001, lot 31.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anonymous sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 14 June 1974, lot 743.
Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 4 June 1976, lot 1125.
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, by 1976.
Diethelm Bernd Hoener, New York, by 1976, and thence by descent; his estate sale, Phillips, New York, 5 November 2001, lot 31.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
T. Pirsig-Marshall & M.-A. von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Cologne, 2020, no. P1920/46 (820), p. 99 (illustrated p. 98; with incorrect dimensions).
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Galerie Ludorff, Der Akt in der Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Plastik, June - September 1976, no. 109, n.p.(with incorrect dimensions).
Special Notice
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