Cubism and Beyond
Cubism and Beyond
Cubism and Beyond
AUGUST MACKE | SCHÄFERSZENE (PASTORAL SCENE)
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June 23, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Cubism and Beyond
AUGUST MACKE
(1887 - 1914)
SCHÄFERSZENE (PASTORAL SCENE)
Watercolor on paper
8½ by 12½ in. (21.5 by 31.7 cm)
Framed: 18 by 22¼ in. (45.7 by 56.5 cm)
Executed in 1912.
Sale: Hausewedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 1-3, 1978, lot 854
Sale: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, November 26-28, 1979, lot 1107
Ernesto F. Blohm, Germany (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above in 1986 and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 22, 2016, lot 157)
Private Collection, London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above
Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Aquarelle, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 241, illustrated p. 267
The present work is one of a series of pastoral scenes that Macke executed as designs for ceramic vases.