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Lovis Corinth

Tapiau/East Prussia 1858 – 1925 Zandvoort

”Selbstporträt im Harnisch”. 1911

Oil on canvas. 85 × 55 cm (33 ½ × 21 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Lovis Corinth. ”Selbstporträt im Harnisch”. 1911.

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 70,600

 

- 94,100

Sold for:

87,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2020

Modern Art, Friday, 04.12.2020

Information

Oil on canvas. 85 × 55 cm (33 ½ × 21 ⅝ in.). Signed and dated upper left: Lovis Corinth 1911 Mai. On the stretcher labels of the Gemäldegalerie Carl Nicolai, Berlin, and the Georg Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt. Catalogue raisonné: Berend-Corinth/Hernad 494.

The painting is being offered with the explicit consent of the heirs of Estella Meyer.

Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin / Richard Moritz Meyer, Berlin (acquired from Cassirer in 31.1.191, until 1914) / Estella Meyer, widow of Richard M. Meyer / Gemäldegalerie Carl Nicolai, Berlin (1936) / Herbert v. Dirksen, Bergen/Obb. (before 1938 until 1955) / Carl Nicolai, Bad Kohlgrub (1959) / Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt (after 1959 until 1992) / Private Collection, Berlin (acquired in1992 , thence by descent to the present owner)

Additional exhibition: 14th Volume, V. Exhibition (Lovis Corinth among others). Berlin, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, 1912, cat. no. 12 (“Selbstbildnis in Rüstung“)

Additional literature: G(eorg) B(iermann): Ausstellungen, Berlin. In: the Cicerone, IV vol. (1912), issue 4, p. 145-147, here p. 145 (“Bildnis in Rüstung“) / Bernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt: “Verheißung und Erfüllung zugleich“. Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer. Volume 5: Die Ausstellungen 1910–1912, Wädenswil 2016, S. 479-482 (the above-mentioned article of Georg Biermann), here p. 480, ill., and p. 485

Lovis Corinth (1858–1925). Memorial exhibition on the 25th anniversary of his death. Hanover, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, 1950, cat. no. 54 / Impressionismus in Deutschland. Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, 1990, cat. no. 56, ill.

Gert von der Osten: Lovis Corinth. Munich, Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1955, here the second edition 1959, p. 98 and p. 194, ill. p. 97 / Christiane Kohl: Bilder eines Vaters. Die Kunst, die Nazis and das Geheimnis einer Familie. Munich, Goldmann Verlag, 2008, p. 80-81, p. 177-178 and p. 303-304

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