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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.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Liebermann. ”Selbstbildnis, stehend an der Staffelei nach links”. 1902.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 43,000

 

- 64,500

Sold for:

50,800 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions Summer 2024

Modern Art, Friday, 31.05.2024

Information

Pastel on paper, laid down on cardboard. 35,6 × 26,2 cm (14 × 10 ⅜ in.). Signed lower right: M Liebermann. Framed

We would like to thank Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, for confirming the authenticity of the pastel and for kindly providing information about provenance and literature.

Julius 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)

An additional import turnover tax of 7% will be added to the premium (other than stated in the printed catalogue)

„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)

Exh.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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