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Baigneuse

Lost Art-ID
630041
Artist / Creator
Maillol, Aristide
Birth
1861.12.08, Banyuls-sur-Mer
Death
1944.09.24, Marly-le-Roi
Title
Baigneuse
Dating
1925 (after)
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Red chalk ; Paper / drawn
Height
30.50 cm
Width
17.70 cm
Inventory number
Z.1968/0005
Description
inscr. below right monogrammed in graphite pencil on recto: M; verso standing nude girl, red chalk on a printed page from the “Eclogen Virgils” illustrated by Maillol (German edition of 1925); below right. Graphite pencil: 243.
Provenance

probably, n.d. - 22.9.1932, P. Schmitz (collector), Bremen

probably, 25.5.1932 - 22.9.1932, Max Perl (auction), Berlin

[whereabouts unknown?]

n.d. - 1935, Galerie Schulthess (gallery), Basel

1935 - 1960, Werner and Nelly Bär (collector), Zurich

1960 - 1968, Nelly Bär (*1910, +1975 Castiglione della Pescaia) (collector), heir

from 1968, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (museum), Zurich, gift

The provenance between 1933 and 1945 is not clear or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. Further research into the provenance is required.

Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link

Literature / Source

Sammlung Werner und Nelly Bär, hrsg. von Werner Bär/René Wehrli, Sammlungskatalog, Weinfelden, 1965, S. 133, Nr. 251.

Meisterwerke aus der Graphischen Sammlung. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Collagen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, hrsg. von Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Ausst.-Kat. und Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 1984, S. 90, Nr. 76.

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