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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 46 | $****** - ****** | Reiter im Wald |
Works on Paper
24.7 x 33.7 cm (9.72 x 13.27 in)
Watercolor, India ink and charcoal, On firm watercolor paper, the full sheet
Titled by Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke on the reverse
The artist"s estate (estate number A 45).
his work presumably is number A 45 on the estate list. In Dr. Ursula Heiderich"s catalogue raisonné, the estate list numbers of the CR numbers 336 and 337, as well as individual provenance and exhibition information, have been mixed up. The estate list number FT 41, which was incorrectly assigned to our cat. no. 336, presumably belonged to the Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin, until 1937 and later entered the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. • Vibrant watercolor from the artist"s most prolific creative period. • In 1911, he was part of the close circle of the emerging “Blue Rider" group, wrote articles for the almanac, and participated in their exhibitions. • After a stay in Paris in 1912 and the subsequent friendship with Robert Delaunay, Macke increasingly distanced himself from the art of the Blue Rider and developed an individual pictorial language. • An excellent free and airy depiction, the brushwork reflecting the summery lightness of the scene. • A comparable watercolor is in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne. • The painting “Ausreitende Husaren” from the same year is in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid . einrich Stinnes Collection (1867-1932), Cologne (acquired in 1918, exhibition “Junges Rheinland”, Kunstverein Cologne). Heinrich Stinnes estate, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (inherited from the above). Private collection, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above in 1974: Ketterer). Galerie Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf (acquired in 2007). Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above). Family-owned ever since. Das Junge Rheinland, Kunstverein Cologne, January 15 until mid February 1918.
Ursula Heiderich, August Macke, Aquarelle. Catalogue raisonné, Ostfildern 1997, pp. 30 and 290, cat. no. 336 (illustrated in b/w on p. 291). Gustav Vriesen, August Macke, Bielefeld 1957, cat. rais. no. A 323 (illustrated in b/w on p. 290, illustration erroneously assigned to cat. rais. no. 322). - - August Macke 1887-1914. Aquarell-Ausstellung, exhib. cat. Städtisches Kunsthaus, Bielefeld, June 23 - July 21, 1957, p. 40 (illustrated, not exhibited). Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, 12th auction, 19th and 20th Century, November 26, 1974, lot 1115 (with full-page color illustration on p. 169). J. M. McCullagh, August Macke and the Vision of Paradise: An Iconographic Analysis, (Diss.) Austin 1980, pp. 95-97 and 220 (illustrated on p. 70). Christie"s, London, 7407th auction, Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper, June 19, 2007, lot 197 (with color ill., with the note “Property from a German Private Collection”). “What occupied August most at the time was the dynamism in a picture, expressed not only by the formal division of the space, but especially through the interplay of the hues against and among one another [..], the color had to operate, vibrate - live.” Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke in retrospect, in: Erinnerungen an August Macke, Stuttgart 1962, pp. 283f. “My views on art differ from those of Kandinsky and Marc. I feel solely responsible for myself now.” August Macke in a letter to Bernhard Koehler, October 16, 1913, quoted in Gustav Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart 1953, p. 120. “A couple of times a week, August and my brother would go on a morning ride to the nearby Tannenbusch, which at the time was the hussars" drill ground.” Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke in retrospect, in: Erinnerungen an August Macke, Stuttgart 1962, p. 270. Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 18.30 h +/- 20 min.
August Macke
Reiter im Wald
1913.
Watercolor, India ink and charcoal.
Titled by Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke on the reverse. On firm watercolor paper. 24.7 x 33.7 cm (9.7 x 13.2 in), the full sheet.
