Lovis Corinth - Wilhelmine - image-1

Lot 103 R

Lovis Corinth - Wilhelmine

Auction 972 - overview Cologne
03.12.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 14.400 € (incl. premium)

Graphite drawing and colored chalks on firm cardboard with embosed stamp"SCHOELLERSHAMMER" (truncated) 49.9 x 35 cm, framed under glass. Signed and dated Lovis Corinth/ Januar 1921 in pencil lower right and titled "Wilhelmine" (underlined) in the middle. - Browned with few scattered specks of foxing and very weak light-staining; with old traces of former mounting on sheet margins.

Portrait of the artist's daughter, called "Mine", according to Thomas Deecke, Berlin, probably made at Walchensee (Lake Walchen) like other family portraits in this year (see e.g. Berend-Corinth 837).

Provenance

Private possession, Switzerland