Lot 227
  • 227

OTTO MÜLLER | Flussufer mit blauem Baum or Landschaft am Ufer eines Flusses mit blauem Baum (Riverbank with Blue Tree or Landscape by a Riverbank with Blue Tree) - rectoWeiblicher Akt (Female Nude) - verso

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Otto Müller
  • Flussufer mit blauem Baum or Landschaft am Ufer eines Flusses mit blauem Baum (Riverbank with Blue Tree or Landscape by a Riverbank with Blue Tree) - rectoWeiblicher Akt (Female Nude) - verso
  • signed by Erich Heckel and stamped with the Nachlass stamp on the verso
  • watercolour, pastel and gouache on paper - rectocoloured crayon on paper - verso
  • 68.5 by 51.9cm., 27 by 20 1/2 in.
  • Recto executed circa 1924.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Sale: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 8th-10th June 1970, lot 1101
Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 26th June 1981, lot 564
Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1988)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Deutsche und Französische Meisterwerke, 1981-82, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue (dated circa 1922)
Düsseldorf, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Wittrock, 1987, no. 48

Literature

Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau & Tanja Pirsig, Otto Mueller, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Essen, 2007, CD-ROM, no. 349, illustrated in colour, n.p.

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge of the verso and floating in its mount. The edges are deckled. There are a number of repaired tears along the right and left edges, the longest of which measures approx. 4cm. There are some minor handling creases in the lower left and right corners. This work is in overall good condition.
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