Oil on canvas, mounted onto firm painter's cardboard 32.5 x 38.7 cm, framed. Signed M. Lieberman [with doubling line over the m] in black lower right and dated 08 (very hard to decipher). - On reverse on the painter's cardboard with an old circular stamp by painter's utensil shop Doris Ranfft and a stamped label of the restoration studio Daniel Fabian, Zurich (Nr. 8853) as well as an old paper label, thereon handwritten "Liebermann No.1134" in ink. On the frame with an old paper label frame from Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, and an old German customs stamp, the address of "Frau T. Schalk, Zürich" [Ms. T. Schalk, Zurich] inscribed in ink.
Eberle 1908/20 [here "cardboard"]
Provenance
Karl Steinbart, Berlin Groß-Lichterfelde (1911); Paul Cassirer, Berlin (1914, PC nr. 2046) (?); Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (until 1939); acquired there on 27 February 1939 by Ernst Schalk-Müller, Zurich; Collection Emil G. Bührle, Zurich; private possession Switzerland
Literature
Gustav Pauli, Max Liebermann. Des Meisters Gemälde in 304 Abbildungen, Klassiker der Kunst, vol. XIX, Stuttgart-Leipzig 1911, p. 252, ill. p. 194; Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin 1914, Werkkatalog p. 544 ("Strand im Sturm"); Galerie und Sammler, Monatsschrift der Galerie Aktuaryus, vol. XIII, Zurich 1945, with title ill.
Exhibitions
St. Gallen 1948 (Kunstverein), Max Liebermann, cat. nr. 48 [there "on canvas"]