Franz Marc - Sitzender, rückblickender Hund - image-1

Lot 464 Dα

Franz Marc - Sitzender, rückblickender Hund

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 18.000 € - 22.000 €
Result: 22.320 € (incl. premium)

Franz Marc

Sitzender, rückblickender Hund
1913

Pencil drawing, slightly wiped, on light paper (sketchbook sheet) 20.1 x 12.5 cm Framed under glass. Unsigned.- Inscribed with page number ".12" in pencil by an unknown hand lower right. - The sheet with rounded corners on the right, with perforation in the margin on the left. - Slightly creased overall, minimally evenly browned.

The sketch shows a sitting dog, presumably a Siberian shepherd, whose slender, pointed head profile shows a certain similarity to the well-known fox depictions of the artist. The overall composition is approximated to a pyramidal triangle, which is given as an abstract background form. A second animal figure (sheep) gazing to the left appears intentionally inscribed onto the dog's body.

Catalogue Raisonné

Hoberg/Jansen vol. III, Skizzenbuch XXXI, 1913, p. 12

Provenance

Artist's estate; Maria Marc, Ried; Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, Marc-Nachlass, no. 226; Rhenish private collection

Exhibitions

Munich/Münster 1993/1994 (Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst München/ Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster), Franz Marc. Kräfte der Natur, Werke 1912-1915, cat. no. 62 with colour illus.; Emden 1994 (Kunsthalle Emden), Franz Marc - Kräfte der Natur, cat. no. 62 with colour illus.