Max Liebermann - Badende Kinder im Meer - image-1

Lot 323 Dα

Max Liebermann - Badende Kinder im Meer

Auction 1051 - overview Cologne
29.05.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 18.000 € - 22.000 €
Result: 37.200 € (incl. premium)

Max Liebermann

Badende Kinder im Meer
Circa 1898

Watercolour over pencil on wove paper 29.8 x 36.6 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'MLiebermann' in pencil lower right. - Lightly browned.

According to Margreet Nouwan the present watercolour originated at the Dutch North Sea coast, presumably on the beach of Scheveningen, in the late 1890s. Liebermann used watercolour techniques here as to quickly capture his impressions. In addition, he roughened the paper in some places in order to plastically depict the foaming spray of the sea.

Certificate

With an expertise by Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, dated 7 January 2015. The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of pastels, watercolours and gouaches by Max Liebermann.

With a photo-certificate by Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Mainz, dated 12 September 1992.

Provenance

Private possession, Texas (until 1992); Christie's New York, Nineteenth Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, 19 Feb.1992, lot 77; Private collection, Rhineland