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Max Oppenheimer (MOPP)

Vienna 1885 – 1954 New York

„Sechstagerennen II“. 1928-29

Oil on canvas. 72 x 87 cm (28 ⅜ x 34 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Oppenheimer (MOPP). „Sechstagerennen II“. 1928-29.

Estimate:

EUR 100,000

 

- 150,000

USD 127,000

 

- 190,000

Sold for:

162,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

Selected Works, Thursday, 27.11.2014

Information

Oil on canvas. 72 x 87 cm (28 ⅜ x 34 ¼ in.). Signed lower right: MOPP. Catalogue raisonné: Von Puttkamer 187. The catalogue raisonné lists a considerably larger version of the subject (von Puttkamer 186, „Sechstagerennen I“, colour plate 20), which is lost since it was exhibited at the Viennese Künstlerhaus in 1932/33. The images' identicalness and the remnants of paint in the tacking margin of the present painting provide evidence that the artist reduced the large version to its central motif in the present painting shortly after the exhibition and signed it as an autonomous work.. Skillfully repaired tear. Framed

We would like to thank Dr. Marie-Agnes von Puttkamer, Munich, for kindly providing additional information.

Private collection, Berlin (on long-term loan to Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, from 1978 until 2014)

Herbstausstellung. Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 1932/33, cat. no. 95 (large version) / Berlinische Galerie 1913–1933. Bestände: Malerei, Skulptur, Graphik. Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, 1978/79, cat. no. 335 / Berlin expressiv. Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, 1981/82, cat. no. 251 / Aus Berlin emigriert. Werke Berliner Künstler, die nach 1933 Deutschland verlassen mußten. Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, 1983, cat. no. 160, full-page colour ill. p. 77 (travelled to Emden, Kunsthalle, and Gütersloh, Theater der Stadt, according to label on the reverse) / Sport in Berlin vom Ritterturnier zum Stadtmarathon. Berlin, Kunstforum Grundkreditbank, 1987/88, ill. p. 102 / Alles rennet, rettet, flüchtet. Sport in der Kunst (on the occasion of Steiermärkische Landesausstellung „Sport – Sinn und Wahn“). Mürzzuschlag, Walter-Buchebner-Gesellschaft, at Galerie Freiberger, 1991, ill. p. 25 / MOPP. Max Oppenheimer 1885–1954. Vienna, Jüdisches Museum, 1994, p. 43 and p.154, colour plate p.155 and colour ill. on the cover / Wien–Berlin. Kunst zweier Metropolen. Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, and Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 2013/14, p. 305, colour ill. 251, and p. 378

Alfons Arenhövel: Arena der Leidenschaften. Der Berliner Sportpalast und seine Veranstaltungen 1910–1973. Berlin, Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, 1990, p. 76, ill. 98, and p. 79, note 40

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