LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour and pencil on paper

Measurements:

11.38 in. (28.90 cm.) (height) by 8.98 in. (22.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Aug. Macke' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Oldenburg, Kunstverein, August Macke, Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1887-1914, December 1948 - January 1949, no. 77 (titled 'Araber'). Bochum, Richard-Baltz-Haus, August Macke Gedächtnisausstellung, April - May 1949, no. 76. Duisburg, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, August Macke, May 1949, no. 106 (titled 'Araber'). Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, August Macke Gedächtnisausstellung, June - July 1949, no. 108 (titled 'Araber'). Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Blaue Reiter, September - October 1949. Basel, Kunsthalle, Der Blaue Reiter 1908-1914, Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, Klee, Wegbereiter und Zeitgenossen, January - February 1950, no. 128. Meschede, Landratsamt, August Macke, Gedächtnisausstellung, 1951, no. 82. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, August Macke, December 1953 - February 1954, no. 119. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, August Macke, February - March 1954, no. 74. Braunschweig, Kunstverein, August Macke, October 1954, no. 182. Bonn, Städtische Kunstammlungen, Tunisaquarelle von August Macke, May - June 1955, no. 36. Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, documenta (I), Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, July - September 1955, no. 359. Münster, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität/Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, August Macke - Gedenkaustellung zum 70. Gerburgstag, January - March 1957, no. 135. Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunsthaus, Macke, Aquarelle-Ausstellung, June - July 1957, no. 489, p. 62 (illustrated). London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Revolt, Germany 1905-25: exhibition in aid of world refugee year, October - November 1959, no. 87. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne/Association Française d'Action Artistique, Les sources du XXe siècle, Les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, November 1960 - January 1961, no. 395. Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, August Macke 1887-1914, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, December 1976 - February 1977, no. 271, p. 223 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Bonn, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, February - March 1977 and Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, April - June 1977. Bonn, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Die Rheinischen Expressionisten, August Macke und seine Malerfreunde, May - July 1979, no. 274; this exhibition later travelled to Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, August - October 1979 and Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, October - December 1979.

Literature:

K. Martin, Reise nach Kairouan, Baden Baden, 1954, no. 8 (illustrated). G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 489 (illustrated no. S. 301). G. Busch & W. Holzhausen, Die Tunisreise, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen von August Macke, Cologne, 1958, p. 19 (illustrated p. 50). G. Busch & W. Holzhausen, Die Tunisreise, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen. von August Macke, Cologne, 1965, p. 75 (illustrated). U. Laxner, Stilanalytische Untersuchungen zu den Aquarellen der Tunisreise 1914: Macke, Klee, Moilliet, Bonn, 1967, pp. 57-63, 67, 72, 76, 124. G. Busch & W. Holzhausen, Die Tunisreise, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen. von August Macke, Cologne, 1973, p. 99 (illustrated). E.G. Güse, 'Raum und Fläche - Europa und der Orient, Zu August Mackes Tunis-Aquarellen', in exh. cat. Die Tunisreise, Klee, Macke, Moilliet, Münster, 1982, p. 109 (illustrated p. 14). E. Erdmann-Macke, Erinnerung an August Macke, Frankfurt, 1987, p. 8 (illustrated). M.M. Moeller, August Macke, Cologne, 1988, no. 32, pp. 64, 132 and 134 (illustrated p. 133). M.M. Moeller, August Macke, Die Tunisreise, Munich, 1989, no. 82, pp. 13, 18-19 (illustrated). E.G. Güse, 'Le voyage de Paul Klee, August Macke et Louis Moilliet en Tunisie', in exh. cat. Figures du Moderne, L'Expressionisme en Allemagne 1905-1914, Paris, 1992, p. 217 (illustrated pl. III.1). U. Heiderich, August Macke, Aquarelle, Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 513, p. 362 (illustrated p. 363).

Provenance:

Louis Moilliet, La Tour de Peilz, by 1914. Dr. Wolfgang Macke, Bonn, a gift from the above in 1948; sale, R.N. Ketterer, Stuttgart, 3-4 May 1961, lot 292. Private collection, Hanover, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.