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GABRIELE MÜNTER (1877-1962)

Gelbes Haus mit Apfelbaum (recto); Landschaft (verso)

Price realised GBP 1,782,000
Estimate
GBP 1,200,000 – GBP 1,800,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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GABRIELE MÜNTER (1877-1962)

Gelbes Haus mit Apfelbaum (recto); Landschaft (verso)

Price realised GBP 1,782,000
Closed: 1 Mar 2022
Price realised GBP 1,782,000
Closed: 1 Mar 2022
Details
GABRIELE MÜNTER (1877-1962)
Gelbes Haus mit Apfelbaum (recto); Landschaft (verso)
with the Nachlass stamp (on the reverse)
oil on board
16 3⁄8 x 19 7⁄8 in. (41.6 x 50.7 cm.)
Painted in 1910
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Galerie Resch, Gauting.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by decent; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 February 2008, lot 29.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Lahnstein, Münter, Ettal, 1971, p. 36 & n.p. (recto illustrated pl. 15).
Exhibited
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Neuere Kunst aus württembergischem Privatbesitz, April - June 1973, no. 163, p. 102.
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Gabriele Münter 1877-1962, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Hinterglasbilder und Volkskunst aus ihrem Besitz, April - July 1977, no. 39, p. 78 (recto illustrated p. 79).
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Gabriele Münter: Between Munich and Murnau, September - November 1980, no. 24, pp. 30-31 (recto illustrated p. 30); this exhibition later travelled to Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, November 1980 - January 1981.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Naive and Outsider Painting from Germany and Paintings by Gabriele Münter, March - May 1983, no. 7, p. 110 (recto illustrated).
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Gabriele Münter, April - May 1988, no. 30, p. 122 (recto illustrated pl. XX); this exhibition later travelled to Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, June - August 1988 and Aichtal-Aich, Sammlung Eisenmann, September 1988.
Munich, Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Gabriele Münter, Retrospektive, July - November 1992, no. 80, p. 267 (recto illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, November 1992 - February 1993.
Special notice
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