Walter Gramatté
Am Guadalquivir.
1926
Watercolour and pencil on firm drawing paper 37.8 x 45.8 cm Framed under glass. Signed and dated ,Gramatté/Barcelona /26' in brown ink at lower left and titled ,Am Guadalquivir' at lower right. - A small tear in the middle of upper margin.
The eponymous oil painting, in composition directly related to the present watercolour, was lost during the war and is no longer existent (Pese 112; Eckhardt B. 110). In 1926, the motif appeared again in the etched series of the portfolio "Espana", slightly summarised and in reverse view (Eckhardt 220).
Catalogue Raisonné
Eckhardt A 211
Provenance
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature
Claus Pese (ed.), Walter Gramatté Eine Dokumentation in Bildern und Texten, Stuttgart/Zurich 1990, p. 240 with colour plate 139
Exhibitions
Hamburg 1932 (Kunstverein), Walter Gramatté: Gedächtnisausstellung, cat. no. 102; Kanada 1966/1967, i.a. Ottawa 1966 (The National Gallery of Canada), Walter Gramatté 1897 - 1929, cat. no. 52 with illus.; Berlin 1968 (Brücke-Museum), Walter Gramatté. 1897 - 1929. Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, cat. no. 52 with illus.; Bremen 1970 (Kunsthalle), Walter Gramatté. Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, cat. no. 26; Düsseldorf 1992 (Galerie Remmmert und Barth), Walter Gramatté 1897 - 1929. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Druckgraphiken, cat. no. 56 with illus.