August Macke - Junge Frau auf der Strasse - image-1
August Macke - Junge Frau auf der Strasse - image-2
August Macke - Junge Frau auf der Strasse - image-1August Macke - Junge Frau auf der Strasse - image-2

Lot 387 Dα

August Macke - Junge Frau auf der Strasse

Auction 1121 - overview Cologne
30.11.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 15.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 16.120 € (incl. premium)

August Macke

Junge Frau auf der Strasse
1912

Pencil drawing on plain paper (sketchbook sheet), mounted on light support card upper verso (19.9 x 13 cm) 10.9 x 7.9 cm Framed under glass. The sheet dated "1912" in pencil by the estate verso lower right. The support card inscribed "August Macke 1912/ Junge Frau auf der Strasse" recto and again on the verso in pencil and ink with information on the work and date and red oval estate stamp "Nachlass AUGUST MACKE" (Lugt 177gb). - Sketch and support card overall slightly browned.

Regarding this sheet, Heiderich alludes - among other things - to the striking motif of the half-length figure of the young woman with a hat in the foreground, who is cut off by the edge of the sheet and is reminiscent of the 1914 oil painting “Promenade (mit weissem Mädchen in Halbfigur)”. She states that the sketch represents “an early graphic formulation of the subject of the 'Promenade' in the group of works” surrounding this oil painting (Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Zeichnungen: Werkverzeichnis, Stuttgart 1993, p. 414, see also Heiderich Gemälde 545 (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart) resp. Vriesen 462. In the present little street scene, particular emphasis is placed on the head depicted in full face, with the remarkable hat charmingly developed in the drawing.

Catalogue Raisonné

Heiderich Zeichnungen 1218

Provenance

Formerly Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin; Weinmüller, Munich (auction 102 28.10.1966, lot 372 and auction 107, 9.6.1967, lot 274); Private collection, Rhineland

Exhibitions

Frankfurt a. M./ Wiesbaden 1920 (Kunstverein Frankfurt/ Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst), Gedächtnis - August Macke, without cat. no.; Berlin 1934 (Galerie von der Heyde), August Macke. Zur 20sten Wiederkehr seines Todestages, cat. no. 40