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Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom

Max Liebermann

Strickende Mädchen (Girls Knitting)

Lot Closed

October 19, 01:36 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom

Max Liebermann

1847 - 1935

Strickende Mädchen (Girls Knitting) 


signed M Liebermann (upper left) 

charcoal on paper 

46.7 by 31.5cm., 18⅜ by 12⅜in.

Framed: 80.3 by 64cm., 31⅝ by 25¼in.

Executed circa 1895.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr Margreet Nouwen.

Bruno Cassirer, Berlin (acquired by 1916; until at least 1923) 
Private Collection (acquired in Berlin circa 1945) 
Private Collection, Jerusalem (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, 4th October 1993, lot 10) 
Galerie Klauspeter Westenhoff, Hamburg 
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in June 1994)
Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 1st March 2018, lot 183 
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Bruno Cassirer (ed.), Kunst und Künstler, Berlin, 1916, vol. XIV, illustrated p. 319 

Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1923, illustrated p. 225 (as dating from 1887