LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Lovis Corinth and dated 1922 (lower centre)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Lovis Corinth, 1923, no. 95 Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Lovis Corinth, 1926, no. 343 New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, 1953, no. 12 (titled Moon Landscape) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, European Masters of Our Time, 1957, no. 28, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1924) Regensburg, Ostdeutsche Galerie & Bremen, Kunsthalle, Lovis Corinth: Die Bilder vom Walchensee, Vision und Realität, 1986, no. 47, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature:

Howard Devree, 'Boston Challenge; Two Shows Expound Modern Movement', in The New York Times, New York, 20th October 1957, illustrated Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Die Gemälde von Lovis Corinth, Werkkatalog, Munich, 1958, no. 874, illustrated p. 782

Provenance:

Dr Arthur Rosin, Berlin & New York (acquired from the artist in the 1920s) Karen Gutmann, New York (daughter of the above) The Leo and Karen Gutmann Foundation (sold: Sotheby's, London, 9th October 2002, lot 7) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner