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
Sold for:
8,890 EUR (incl. premium)
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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