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August Macke (1887-1914)

Mädchen beim Reisigsammeln

the purple oval Nachlass stamp numbered FSt 48 on the reverse and on a piece of card attached to the back, pastel on thin buff paper
15½ x 12.3/8in. (39.3 x 31.5cm.)

Executed in 1914
Provenance
Fritz Heeg-Erasmus
Literature
Dr. W. Macke, Katalog I (housed in the Macke-Archiv, Landesmuseum, Mnster)
U. Heiderich, August Macke: Zeichnungen, Werkverzeichnis, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 679, no. 2707 (not illustrated)

Lot Essay

This work is also recorded as no. 48 in the Nachlass list of Farbige Stiftzeichnungen

There is a closely related drawing from the same year Kinder im Wald (H.2433) which hangs in the National Gallery Berlin (see fig.1.)

To be illustrated in the forthcoming supplement to the Macke drawings catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Ursula Heiderich

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