August Macke - Kopfstudie Elisabeth. Verso: Bildnis Elisabeth - image-1

Lot 146 Dα

August Macke - Kopfstudie Elisabeth. Verso: Bildnis Elisabeth

Auction 1188 - overview Cologne
04.12.2021, 11:00 - Modern and Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
Result: 16.250 € (incl. premium)

August Macke

Kopfstudie Elisabeth. Verso: Bildnis Elisabeth
1908

Pencil drawing on fine Japan paper 42.5 x 30.7 cm Framed under glass. Verso lower left inscribed by Anna Koehler in ink: "Skizze seiner Braut Elisabeth/ von August Macke 1909/ Steglitz". - Drawing pin holes in the corners.

The drawing of his future wife Elisabeth was done during Macke's study visit in Berlin 1907/1908. Anna Koehler was the wife of Elisabeth's uncle Richard Koehler. Her great-uncle Bernhard Koehler belonged to Macke's most important patrons.

Catalogue Raisonné

Heiderich 269

Provenance

Galerie Utermann, Dortmund (1986); Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia; since then in family possession

Literature

August Freese, Ernst-Gerhard Güse (ed.), August Macke - Briefe an Elisabeth, Munich 1987, p. 179 with illus.

Exhibitions

Emden 1992/1993 (Kunsthalle), August Macke. Vom Gesang der Schönheit der Dinge. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, cat. no. 5