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Property from the Family of Estella Katzenellenbogen

Lovis Corinth

Der getötete Drache (The Slain Dragon)

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Auction Closed

June 28, 12:29 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Family of Estella Katzenellenbogen

Lovis Corinth

1858 - 1925


Der getötete Drache (The Slain Dragon)

signed with the monogram LC. (upper left)

tempera on canvas

49.3 by 131.5 cm. 19⅜ by 51¾ in.

Executed in 1914.

Ludwig and Estella Katzenellenbogen, Berlin (commissioned from the artist for their country estate in Freienhagen in 1913-14)

Estella Katzenellenbogen, Berlin and Los Angeles

Thence by descent to the present owners

Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Die Gemälde von Lovis Corinth, Munich, 1958, no. 611, p. 618, illustrated

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Lovis Corinth, 1926, no. 249

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (on loan)

San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art (on loan)