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Adolph Menzel

Wrocław 1815 – 1905 Berlin

On the Mountainside. Circa 1872/74

Pencil, with partial stumping, on Whatman wove paper. 24,7 × 32,8 cm (9 ¾ × 12 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Adolph Menzel. On the Mountainside. Circa 1872/74.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 34,100

 

- 45,500

Sold for:

112,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 01.06.2016

Information

Pencil, with partial stumping, on Whatman wove paper. 24,7 × 32,8 cm (9 ¾ × 12 ⅞ in.). Firmly mounted on cardboard.

We would like to thank Dr. Ute Haug, Hamburg Kunsthalle, and Dagmar Lott-Reschke, Ernst-Barlach-Haus, Hamburg, Jasmin Hartmann, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Fondation Courboud, Cologne, and Prof. Dr. Werner Busch, Berlin, for kindly providing additional information. The drawing is offered for sale with the explicit consent of the heirs of Elsa Helene Cohen..

Firmly mounted on cardboard

Dr. Albert Martin Wolffson, Hamburg (at the latest 1905, until 1913) / Helene Marie Wolffson, widow of Dr. A. Wolffson, Hamburg / Elsa Helene Cohen, daughter of the previous owner / Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg (31.12.1938 acquired from the previous owner) / Kunstausstellung Gerstenberger, Chemnitz (May 1939) / Private collection, Baden-Wuerttemberg (acquired by the grandfather of the current owner, presumably from Gerstenberger)

Monogrammed in the lower margin in the centre: A.M.

Ausstellung von Werken Adolph von Menzels. Berlin, Königliche National-Galerie, 1905, II. ed., cat. no. 5426 / Catalogue 35: Nyare Tysk Konst. Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, 1922, cat. no. 496 („Hydda i bergen“) / Adolph Menzel, 1815–1905. Chemnitz, Kunstausstellung Gerstenberger, 1939, cat. no. 25, with illustration

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