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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 28, 2023 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Modern Art | 123 | $****** - ****** | Bauernkopf / Portrait of a peasant |
paintings
28.2 x 20.8 cm (11.1 x 8.19 in)
oil on cardboard oil on canvas
signed Egger Lienz
Dr. Fritz Wängler, Vienna
Private Collection, Innsbruck (purchased from the above in 1940 according to a written invoice)
Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent by the above)
Heinrich Hammer, Albin Egger-Lienz, Innsbruck 1930, p. 279, no. 2 (mentioned provenance: Dr. Fritz Wängler)
(Stribach bei Lienz 1868-1926 St. Justina bei Bozen, South Tyrol)
Bauernkopf / Portrait of a peasant, Head study for the standing peasant in the painting Generationen (The family), c. 1919, signed Egger Lienz, oil on cardboard, 28.2 x 20.8 cm, framed
Provenance:
Dr. Fritz Wängler, Vienna
Private Collection, Innsbruck (purchased from the above in 1940 according to a written invoice)
Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent by the above)
Registered and illustrated in:
Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger-Lienz. Das Gesamtwerk, Wien 1996, vol. I, p. 319 (full page illustration) and vol. II, p. 553, cat. rais. no. M 428
Literature:
Heinrich Hammer, Albin Egger-Lienz, Innsbruck 1930, p. 279, no. 2 (mentioned provenance: Dr. Fritz Wängler)
Compare with:
Die Generationen, 1918/ 1919, oil on canvas, Kirschl, vol. I, p. 315 (colour ill.), vol. II, cat. rais. no. M 418
Two pencil studies Studie zu Mann I and Bauer aus Jenesien, Kirschl, vol. II, no. Z 426 and Z 428
“I do not consider the colour as a factor in itself, but evaluate it in accordance to the law of harmony as a counterplay to the image idea.”
(Egger-Lienz, cit. in: Kirschl, vol. I, p. 316)
