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Adolph Menzel

Wrocław 1815 – 1905 Berlin

Early morning on the night express train. 1877

Brush and pen and India ink as well as pencil, heightened with opaque white on light cardboard, laid down on blue, light cardboard. 26,2 × 34,4 cm (10 ⅜ × 13 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Adolph Menzel. Early morning on the night express train. 1877.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 95,200

 

- 143,000

Sold for:

206,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer 2021

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 09.06.2021

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Brush and pen and India ink as well as pencil, heightened with opaque white on light cardboard, laid down on blue, light cardboard. 26,2 × 34,4 cm (10 ⅜ × 13 ½ in.). Signed, inscribed and dated upper left: Ad: Menzel Berl: 1877.

A loan request has been placed on the drawing from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes for the exhibition "Le voyage en train / The train journey [working title]" (fall 2022).

Adolph Thiem, Berlin ( acquired from the artist on the 5.11.1878) / Albert Wolff, Paris (at the latest 1885 until 1891) / Kunst- und Verlagshandlung R. Wagner, Berlin (owner: Hermann Paechter, Berlin; spätestens 1895, bis 1902) / Galerie Heinemann, München (no. 6851: Im Eisenbahn-Coupé, 22 x 35 cm; acquired on the 15.12.1903) (?) / Edgar Hanfstaengl sen., Munich (acquired on the 7.1.1904 from Heinemann) (?) / Private Collection, Southern Germany (late. 1970, thence by descent to the present owner)

Exposition des Œuvres de Adolphe Menzel. Paris, Pavillon de la Ville, Jardin des Tuileries, 1885, cat. no. 221 („Cinq minutes d'arrêt“)

Berlin Artists Association (ed.): Bausteine. Lose Blätter aus den Mappen Berliner Künstler. Zum Besten des Bestandes für Erbauung eines Künstlerhauses. First vol. Berlin, 1877 (there titled by the artist: „Morgens früh“) / F.-G. Dumas: Adolphe Menzel. Paris, Galerie des Artistes Modernes, 1885, ill. 97 („Cinq minutes d‘arrêt“) / Adolf Rosenberg: Geschichte der modernen Kunst. Third vol.: Die deutsche Kunst. Second part: 1849–1889. Leipzig, 1889, p. 208 / Max Jordan and Robert Dohme: Das Werk Adolph Menzels. Ed. authorised by the artist. 3 volumes. Munich, 1890-1905, here part 1 (1890), p. 96 / Max Jordan: The Work of Adolph Menzel. A commemorative publication on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday. Munich, 1895, p. 70 / H(ermann) Knackfuß: Menzel. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1895 (= Artists' Monographs, ed. by H. Knackfuß, vol. VII), p. 80, ill. 86, and p. 100-101; 7th ed., 1906, p. 82, ill. 86, and p. 102; 10th ed., 1922, p. 91, ill. 102, and p. 113 / Franz H. Meissner: Adolph von Menzel. Berlin/Leipzig, 2. Tausend 1902 (= The Artist's Book, Vol. VIII), p. 82 / Max Jordan: Das Werk Adolph Menzels, 1815–1890. Munich, 1905, p. 96 / Paul Meyerheim: Adolph von Menzel. Erinnerungen. Berlin, 1906, p. 67-69 / E. W. Bredt: Adolph Menzel. Wanderbuch. München, 1920, ill. p. 53 („Fünf Minuten Aufenthalt“) / Elfried Bock: Adolph Menzel. Index of his graphic work. Berlin, 1923, p. 546, no. A 1185 (a photogravure after the drawing "Mechanical reproductions") / Harm-Hinrich Brandt: Zug der Zeit – Zeit der Züge. Deutsche Eisenbahn 1835–1985. 2 volumes. Berlin, 1985, hier vol. 2, p. 419 / exh. cat.: Von Caspar David Friedrich bis Adolph Menzel. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen der Romantik. From the Nationalgalerie Berlin/DDR. Wien, Kunstforum Länderbank, 1990, exh. no. 146 (mentioned, not exhibited) / Gisold Lammel (ed.): Exzellenz lassen bitten. Erinnerungen an Adolph Menzel. Leipzig, 1992, p. 189-190, ill. p. 188 / Gisold Lammel: Adolph Menzel. Bildwelt und Bildregie. Dresden/Basel, 1993, p. 185, ill. / Gisold Lammel: Adolph Menzel und seine Kreise. Dresden/Basel, 1993, p. 163 / exh. cat.: Adolph Menzel, 1815–1905. Das Labyrinth der Wirklichkeit. Paris, Musée d‘Orsay; Washington, National Gallery of Art, and Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Kupferstichkabinett, 1996/97, cat. no. 87 (mentioned, not exhibited) / Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher: Adolph Menzel. Briefe. 4 vols. Berlin/München, 2009 (= Sources on German Art History from Classicism to the Present, Vol. 6), here vol. 3, Brief 1103, p. 922-923, here p. 923 (an F. Bruckmann, 21.11.1881) / exh. cat.: Blinde Blicke. Sehen und Nicht-Sehen bei Adolph Menzel. Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, in the Old National Gallery, 2015/16, p. 53, note. 18 (mentioned, not exhibited)

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