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Lot 3241* - A209 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 21. June 2024, 05.00 PM

FRANS MASEREEL

(Blankenberghe 1889–1972 Avignon)
La cheminée verte. 1929.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated lower right: FM / 1929. Signed and dated verso: Frans Masereel / 1929.
73 × 92 cm.

Provenance:
- Ehrmann collection, Australia
- With Galerie Joseph Billiet, Paris (label verso).
- With Feigl Galerie, New York (label verso).
- Marvin and Janet Fishman collection, USA.
- Sale Sotheby's, London, 18.10.2000, Lot 94.
- Swiss collection, acquired at the above auction.

Exhibited:
- Mannheim/Amsterdam/Munich 1929/30, Frans Masereel, Städtische Kunsthalle, November 1929, no. 47/Stedelijk Museum, Feb 1930, no. 29/Städtische Galerie, March–April 1930, no. 44 (ill.).
- Milwaukee/Berlin/Frankfurt/Emden/New York/Omaha/Atlanta 1990-92, From Expressionism to Resistance. Art in Germany 1909–1936. The Janet and Marvin Fishman Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, 7.12.1990–3.2.1991/Berlinische Galerie, 1.3.–28.4.1991/Schirn Kunsthalle, 8.6.–18.8.1991/Kunsthalle Emden, 29.8.–20.10.1991/The Jewish Museum, 21.11.1991–25.1.1992/Joslyn Art Museum/High Museum of Art, 6.6.–30.8.1992, no. 95 (various labels verso).
- The Hague/Stockholm/Helsinki/Brussels 1995/96, Art as Resistance. The Janet and Marvin Fishman Collection, Museum Escher in Het Paleis/Liljevalchs Konsthall, 18.11.1995–7.1.1996/Helsinging Taidehalli, 10.2.–14.4.1996/Palais des Beaux-Arts, no. 97 (various labels verso).

Literature:
- Pierre Vorms (ed.): Masereel. Catalogue raisonné, Antwerp 1976, p. 62, no. 164.
- G.F. Hartlaub: Frans Masereel, in: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Berlin 1930 (ill.).
- Luc Durtain: Frans Masereel, Paris 1931 (plate LVIII).

CHF 6 000 / 9 000 | (€ 6 190 / 9 280)


Sold for CHF 11 250 (including buyer’s premium)
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