Oil and tempera as well as pencil on art print paper, printed on reverse 24.4/24.6 x 17.5/17.8 cm, mounted onto canvas 25 x 18/18.2 cm, framed under glass. Dated Nov 3.... in pencil lower right - (the inscription slightly fragmented, the last number of date 35 difficult to decipher). - The lower right corner of paper damaged and restored, applying precisely that corner. According to Maur, the paper is printed on verso with the reproduction of a pantomime stage scene, shining vaguely through the canvas. - On reverse the stretcher with printed labels from "ALBERT LOEB AND KRUGIER" gallery, New York as well as Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart.
Maur G 315
Provenance
Galerie Krugier, Geneva; art trade Sweden; Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart; formerly private possession Stuttgart; private collection
Literature
Hans Hildebrandt (ed.), Oskar Schlemmer, Munich 1952, oeuvre catalogue (compiled with Tut Schlemmer) nr. 286 ("Vorübergehende"); Karin von Maur, Oskar Schlemmer, Monographie, Munich 1979, p. 272 f. with ill. p. 273
Exhibitions
Cologne 1952 (Galerie Ferdinand Möller), Oskar Schlemmer Sonderausstellung, nr. 35; Stuttgart/ Munich 1953 (Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart/ Haus der Kunst), Oskar Schlemmer, Gedächtnisausstellung zum 10-jährigen Todestag, nr. 122 resp. nr. 108; Wuppertal/Kassel 1963 (Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal/ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel), Oskar Schlemmer Spätwerke 1935-1942), nr. 6; Geneva 1964 (Galerie Krugier Genf), Oskar Schlemmer, Suites No. 6, nr. 13; Paris 1972 (Espace Cardin, Maître Binoche, Tableaux Modernes 14-18 Nov.), nr. 181m, with ill.; Hamburg 1973 (Hauswedell & Nolte, Auktion 193, Moderne Kunst, 14-16 June), nr. 1736 with ill. p. 525; Munich 1973 (Wolfgang Ketterer München, 10. Auktion, 20. Jahrhundert, 26-28 Nov.), nr. 1130 with ill. p. 175; Stuttgart 1974, Kunsthaus Bühler, Ausgewählte Werke der klassischen Moderne, unpag. (p. 6), with ill. (3)