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Property from an Important American Collection

Albert Bloch

Knabenbildnis (Portrait of a Boy)

Lot Closed

May 14, 05:05 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collection

Albert Bloch

1882 - 1961

Knabenbildnis (Portrait of a Boy)


Signed Albert Bloch and dated 11 (upper right)

Oil on canvas

35 ¾ by 28 ¼ in. (91.4 by 71.1 cm)

Framed: 45 ½ by 38 in. (115.6 by 96.5 cm)

Painted in 1911.


We are grateful to Prof. David Cateforis, The University of Kansas, for his kind support in cataloguing this lot.

Estate of the artist
Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde, Kansas City (acquired in 1978)
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in 2005
Frank Baron & Jon Blumb, Albert Bloch and the Blue Rider: The Munich Years, Lawrence, Kansas, 2014, fig. 4, illustrated n.p.
Berlin, Ausstellungshaus der Berliner Secession, Ausstellung der Berliner Secession XXII, 1911, no. 20
Munich, Der Neue Kunstsalon, Albert Bloch, 1913, no. 3
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Austellung Albert Bloch, 1913, no. 3
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute & Clinton, New York, Edward W. Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Albert Bloch, 1882–1961, An American Expressionist: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1974, no. 3
Kansas City, Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Albert Bloch, Blaue Reiter Artist in the Midwest: Retrospective Exhibition, 1911-1958: Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, 1978, no. 3
Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Munich, Städtishche Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Wilmington, Delaware Museum of Art, Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider, 1997, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue