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Gabriele Münter (1877-1962)

Stilleben mit Porzellanlampe

Details
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962)
Stilleben mit Porzellanlampe
signed with monogram and dated 'Mü1918' (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 5/8 x 29¾in. (100.7 x 75.5cm.)
Painted in 1918
Provenance
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, where purchased by the present owner in 1963.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Gabriele Münter 1877-1962 Memorial Exhibition, May 1963 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

At the end of 1917 Münter moved to Copenhagen from Stockholm, where she had been living for the previous two and a half years. In 1918 she had her first major individual show at Die Frie Kunstudstilling in Copenhagen.

Anne Mochon has written on Münter's work at this time: "objects in still lifes and interiors became more isolated and carefully delineated rather than clustered together informally as they had been in her painting in Munich and Murnau. Münter retained her sensitivity to recording her environment, but now with a renewed dependence on drawing to describe figures and define space." (Gabriele Münter Between Munich and Murnau, Harvard, 1980, p. 52).

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