Max Liebermann
1847 – Berlin – 1935
”Portrait des Friedrich (Fritz) Gurlitt”. Circa 1892
Charcoal, partially with brush heightened with white, on brownish paper. 40,4 × 30,9 cm. (15 ⅞ × 12 ⅛ in.) Signed in pencil lower left: MLiebermann. Inscribed lower right by Wolfgang Gurlitt, the son of the subject: Bildnis Fritz Gurlitt, um 1892. [3295]
ProvenanceFormerly Private Collection Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin
EUR 7.000 – 9.000
USD 7,530 – 9,680
We would like to thank Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, for kindly confirming the authenticity of the drawing.
ExhibitionMax Liebermann. Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, 1947, ill. p. 11 / Max Liebermann. Ausstellung der Bezirksämter Reinickendorf and Tempelhof, Berlin, 1959, cat. no. 66, ill. / Max Liebermann in seiner Zeit. Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1979/80, cat. no. 257, p. 527
Literature and IllustrationHans Peter Thurn: Der Kunsthändler. Wandlungen eines Berufes. Munich, Hirmer, 1994, ill. 43, p. 120 / Nicolaas Teeuwisse: Vom Salon zur Sezession. Berliner Kunstleben zwischen Tradition und Aufbruch zur Moderne 1871, Jahresgabe des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1986, ill. 41. p. 105
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