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Lot 280 D

Werner Gilles - Le Brusc

Auction 1004 - overview Cologne
30.11.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 9.760 € (incl. premium)

Werner Gilles

Le Brusc
1936

oil on canvas 56.5 x 65.5 cm WGilles

We cordially would like to thank Marlis Zilkens Schwengers, Cologne, for additional references.

According to Marlis Zilkens Schwengers, the landscape was presumably painted in Le Brusc, in Southern France, where Gilles travelled to in 1929/1930. From 1931/1932 onwards, he was quite frequently on the island of Ischia. Also, our landscape fits stilistically into the oeuvre of the earlier years 1927-1929. (cf. Marlis Schwengers, Werner Gilles (11894-1961), Stilistische und ikonographische Studien zu seinem Werk [...], Cologne 1985, G 71 ff.; exhib. cat. Werner Gilles, Akademie der Künste Berlin 1962, pp. 32-37, illus.)

Provenance

Estate of the artist; purchased by the former owner at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 1973 (with receipt by Eberhard Seel, fotocopy), there titled and dated "Porto d' Ischia 1936"; since then Family Estate, Rhineland

Exhibitions

Bonn 1973 (Rheinisches Landesmuseum), Werner Gilles. Ein Rückblick, cat. no. 19, not illus.