Bathing girls with city in the background
Found on the reverse:
Painted in colour at the top centre of the canvas: „1 (in a circle) Macke. Badende“, on the stretcher top left handwritten in blue: U X R 32/...(illegible, perhaps MER) crossed out, next to it upside down “40” in pencil, next to it yellowed sticker printed: “Galerie Dr. Rusche / Köln Braunsfeld / Wiethasestrasse 22”, on it handwritten in blue “U X R 32/4 n”, next to it partially torn off sticker printed: „XVI. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte della città di Venezia 1928 / 1182“, above this a brownish printed sticker partially covering the “2”: “Gustav Knauer / 8650 / Kunst-Abteilung”, above this partially covered by “Knauer”, an Italian customs sticker with serrated edge: no. „AL 90...“ (two digits illegible), next to it handwritten in blue colour: “APM 1976 oder 1970”, top left white rectangular label: „DIENST VOOR SCHOONE KUNSTEN S. GRAVENHAGE Dec. 53/Jan 54/ TENTOONST: Aug. Macke / KUNSTENAAR: idem / TITEL: Badende Mädchen / INZENDER: Bary. State Painting Collections / DATE: (blank) / H: 100 W: 80 / CAT. No.: 32 / INV.: (empty)“, above it handwritten in blue: “1970” and in red “0”, next to it another white label with a handwritten blue “H”, below an almost completely torn off label (obviously once again DIENST VOOR SCHOONE KUNSTEN S. GRAVENHAGE), lower left label BStGS: „Inv.- No. 1137“, on the label again in blue “U X R 32/4”, top right a “C” in pencil, below “377” in pencil, below partially torn label printed: “87”, below an Italian customs sticker with serrated edge: No. “Nc 7327”, partially above in blue handwritten “U X R 3...”, next to it reddish rectangular sticker: „XXV. Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia / 313“, next to it red rectangular label: „XXV. BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG - VENEDIG 1950 / First name and surname: August Macke / Title of the artwork: Badende / Sales price: not for sale / Owner: Bayer. Staatsgalerie München / Address: Bayer. Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Arcisstr. 10“, handwritten in black lower left: “13.11.53 A.L.”, lower centre: “80” (dimensions), centre left: “100” (dimensions), illegible small round customs stamp.
1913 - 1937, whereabouts unknown;
n.d. - presumably 1937/38, Galerie Rudolf Probst, Mannheim;
1937/38 - n.d., Eberhard Thost (1896 - 1990), Hamburg, possibly acquired by Galerie Rudolf Probst;
n.d. - 1950, Galerie Dr Werner Rusche (1907-1976), Cologne;
since 1950, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, acquired as a purchase from Galerie Dr Werner Rusche
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany