Max Liebermann
1847 – Berlin – 1935
”Selbstbildnis, stehend an der Staffelei nach links”. 1902
Pastel on paper, laid down on cardboard. 35,6 × 26,2 cm. (14 × 10 ⅜ in.) Signed lower right: M Liebermann. [3264] Framed
ProvenanceJulius Elias, Berlin (1925, died 1927) / Wilhelm (Willy) Herz, Cologne/Berlin (acquired in the 1920s) / Friedl Herz (wife of Wilhelm, Bonn (died 1970) / John H. Herz (originally Hans Hermann Herz, Düsseldorf), Scarsdale/New York (thence by descent to the present owner; from 1999 to 2024 on loan to Jüdisches Museum, Berlin)
EUR 40.000 – 60.000
USD 43,000 – 64,500
We would like to thank Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, for confirming the authenticity of the pastel and for kindly providing information about provenance and literature.
Exhibition„Daumier ist ungeheuer!“ (Max Liebermann). Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Bronzen von Honoré Daumier. Berlin, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor im Max Liebermann Haus, 2013, p. 40, ill. 2, and photo p. 44, ill. 7 (Julius Elias sits nonchalantly on the desk in his study, next to him on the wall the self-portrait of Liebermann)
Literature and IllustrationExh.cat.: Manet bis van Gogh. Hugo von Tschudi und der Kampf um die Moderne. Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1996/97, photo p. 387, ill. 3 / Exh.cat: Max Liebermann. Jahrhundertwende. Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1997, photo p. 237 / Sigrid Achenbach: Max Liebermanns Arbeiten für den Fritz Heyder Verlag. Potsdam, Vacat Verlag, 2002, p. 51f., mentioned under cat. no. 56 / Inka Bertz: Familienbilder. Selbstdarstellung im jüdischen Bürgertum. Cologne, Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2004 (accompanying book to the exhibition: Stil-l-halten. Familienbilder im jüdischen Bürgertum. Berlin, Jüdisches Museum, 2004/05), p. 122 (exhibited as reproduction)
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