Die Brücke in Rügenwaldermünde

Details

Arthur Segal (1875-1944)
Die Brücke in Rügenwaldermünde
signed and dated 'A. Segal 1925' (lower right)
oil on canvas
27¼ x 35½ in. (69.2 x 90.2 cm.)
Painted in 1925

Provenance

Marianne Segal, the artist's daughter; her sale, Sotheby's London, 16 April 1970, lot 8.
Richard Nathanson, London.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, February 1984.

Literature

W. Herzogenrath and P. Liska, Arthur Segal 1875-1944, Cologne, 1987, no. KN302 (illustrated p. 344).

Exhibited

London, The Royal Society of British Artists' Galleries, Memorial Exhibition (1894-1944) by Arthur Segal, Sept.-Oct. 1945, no. 266 or 267 (title given as 'Brücke' and dated '1924').
possibly London, R.B.A. Gallery, 1950, no. 72.

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Lot Essay

Born in Romania in 1875, Arthur Segal travelled to Berlin in 1892 to take up study at the Berlin Academy. Over the following decade of study, Segal travelled to Munich, Paris and Italy, finally settling in Berlin in 1904, where he began to exhibit with the Berliner Secession. However, in 1910 Segal resigned from the Berliner Secession in order to join the more radical Neue Secession whose first president was Max Pechstein, a founding member of the Brücke. The expressionist impulse in Segal's work, partly under the influence of the Futurists, gradually gave way to a more geometric style which, in the present work, is also allied to a prismatic weft of colour characteristic of his output around 1925.

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