LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and pencil on paper

Measurements:

22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (height) by 17.01 in. (43.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Galerie Neumann und Nierendorf, Oskar Schlemmer und Franz Xaver Fuhr, November 1928, no. 2 (no catalogue). Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller, Oskar Schlemmer, May - June 1929, no. 16 (no catalogue). Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 30 Deutsche Künstler aus unserer Zeit, April - June 1930, no. 114, p. 12. Dessau, Bauhaus, Oskar Schlemmer, February - March 1932 (no catalogue). Mainz, Kunsthalle am Dom, Neue Deutsche Kunst, June - July 1947, no. 108, p. 24 (illustrated pl. XV). Turin, Galleria Galatea, Selezione 11, May - June 1974, no. 31, n.p. (illustrated; titled 'Lezione').

Literature:

H. Hildebrandt, Oskar Schlemmer, Munich, 1952, no. 591, p. 145 (titled 'Lehrerin an der Tafel'). Der neue Brockhaus, vol. IV, Wiesbaden, 1959, p. 505 (illustrated; dated '1924'). E. Bender, ed., Deutsches Lesebuch für Gymnasien, vol. V, no. 9-10, Karlsruhe, 1968, p. 97 (illustrated). K. von Maur, Oskar Schlemmer, Oeuvrekatalog der Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle und Plastiken, Munich, 1979, no. A 369, pp. 294 & 295 (illustrated p. 294).

Provenance:

Olga Krücke, Wiesbaden, by 1930, and thence by descent. Leonard Hutton Gallery, New York, by 1973. Galleria Galatea, Turin (no. 2666), by 1974. Siegfried Adler, Montagnola, by 1979. Private collection, Italy, and thence by descent to the present owner.