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Gewitterauge
Details
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959)
Gewitterauge
signed and dated 'AKubin 06' (lower right)
gouache on card
9 x 8½ in. (23 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1906
Gewitterauge
signed and dated 'AKubin 06' (lower right)
gouache on card
9 x 8½ in. (23 x 21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1906
Provenance
Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Alfred Kubin, September - November 1986, p. 136 (illustrated).
Bolzano, Museo dArte Moderna, Il sogno rivela la natura delle cose, 1991, no. 87 (illustrated p. 117); this exhibition later travelled to Milan, Museo della Permanente and Naples, Accademia di Belle Arti.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Die Erfindung der Natur, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Wols und das surreale Universum, February - May 1994, no. 87, p. 308 (illustrated pl. 49); this exhibition later travelled to Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein and Salzburg, Rupertinum.
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Visioni del Fantastico e del Meraviglioso, Prima dei Surrealisti, October 2004 - January 2005, no. XX.6 (illustrated p. 428).
Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Paris y los Surrealistas, February - May 2005; this exhibition later travelled to Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes.
Siena, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, La lente di Freud, Una galleria dell'inconscio, November 2008 - February 2009 (illustrated p. 248).
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, In-finitum, June - November 2009, no. 3 (illustrated).
Bolzano, Museo dArte Moderna, Il sogno rivela la natura delle cose, 1991, no. 87 (illustrated p. 117); this exhibition later travelled to Milan, Museo della Permanente and Naples, Accademia di Belle Arti.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Die Erfindung der Natur, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Wols und das surreale Universum, February - May 1994, no. 87, p. 308 (illustrated pl. 49); this exhibition later travelled to Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein and Salzburg, Rupertinum.
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Visioni del Fantastico e del Meraviglioso, Prima dei Surrealisti, October 2004 - January 2005, no. XX.6 (illustrated p. 428).
Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Paris y los Surrealistas, February - May 2005; this exhibition later travelled to Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes.
Siena, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, La lente di Freud, Una galleria dell'inconscio, November 2008 - February 2009 (illustrated p. 248).
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, In-finitum, June - November 2009, no. 3 (illustrated).
Special notice
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Please note that the medium is gouache on black wove paper and the measurements are 31.7 x 23.2 cm. and not as stated in the catalogue.
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