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MAX LIEBERMANN(1847-1935)Allée de la Liberté à Cannes
25 March 2021, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£50,000 - £70,000
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MAX LIEBERMANN (1847-1935)
Allée de la Liberté à Cannes
signed 'MLiebermann' (lower left)
pastel on paper
31.8 x 49cm (12 1/2 x 19 5/16in).
Executed circa 1907
signed 'MLiebermann' (lower left)
pastel on paper
31.8 x 49cm (12 1/2 x 19 5/16in).
Executed circa 1907
Footnotes
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dr. Margeet Nouwen.
Provenance
Gurlitt (1940).
Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen (acquired from the above, 1940).
Wilhelm Voigt Collection, Bremen.
Rolf Schroers Collection, Oldenburger Heide/Cologne.
Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen (1967).
Walter Stein Collection, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, 1967)
Fred Heim Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in the late 1960s).
Anderson Galleries Inc., Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, 2011).
Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk, Munich (2012).
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above).
Liebermann's time in France proved pivotal to his development as an artist. In 1873 he moved to Paris and set up a studio in Montmartre. He exhibited his famous painting Gänserupferinnen at the Salon de Paris in the following year and spent the summer in the village of Barbizon. The Barbizon School would prove a significant influence for the Impressionist artist, who turned away from the darker palette of his earlier compositions towards working en plein air. Eventually, Liebermann settled in Wannsee close to Berlin, but France always remained an important place for him. This beautiful pastel of a boulevard in Cannes was executed during a visit to the South of France around 1907 and perfectly exhibits the artist's fresh Post-Impressionist colours and characteristic elegant figures promenading.