Reiter am Strand / Riders on the beach




on recto, lower right, signed and dated in black: “MLiebermann 1901 [erroneously dated]”
on verso, on frame, upper left, inscribed in red crayon: “225” [in circle]; inscribed in blue: “No. 19”, “L. 22”; upper left, handwritten, small white label: “1930”; upper centre, printed brown label: “Secession Berlin Schwarz-Weiss-Ausstellung 1906 / 1872”; inscribed in blue “8.”, “23” [in circle]; top right corner, typewritten label: “Regal [...]”; framer’s label: “Albert Sue[...] Gemälde-Rahmen-Fabrik [...] Moderne Einrahmungen [...] Berlin [...] 82. Gegründet 1873”; brown label: “Deutsch-nationale Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf 1902 Versand / Gruppe Berliner Secession / Lagernummer / Künstler M. Liebermann / Gegenstand Reiter am Strande / Empfänger Gemäldeausstellung Lichtenberg / Stadt Breslau / Zeichen und Nummer B [?] AL 544 / Versand als G[...]”; handwritten white label: “Frau Helene Gurlitt Düsseldorf Rotterdammer Str. 35”; lower left, inscribed in blue crayon: “7.”; beige label: “Deutsch-nationale Kunst-Ausstellung Düsseldorf 1902 / 1863”; lower right, inscribed in blue crayon: “Wie 1930“; further illegible blue markings
on verso, stretcher, upper left, inscribed in blue crayon: “L.22”; upper right, white label with two stamps [Berlin county seal?]and illegible red inscription; faded brown label: “[...] Petersson Berlin W., Potsdamerstr. 23a, Hochwohlgeboren Berlin Prof. M. Liebermann 72/92 cm Pariserplatz“; centre left, inscribed in red: “41”; lower left, white label: “Liebermann-Ausstellung Hannover 1954 Katalog Nr. 42 Kunstverein Düsseldorf“
Cat. Rais.: Eberle 1995 No. 1901/14
By 1905 until at least 1939: David Friedmann, Berlin/Breslau
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With Hermann Petschel, Breslau
July 1942: acquired from the above, Schlesisches Museum der bildenden Künste, Breslau, inv. no. 28321
September 1942: acquired from the above, Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg 1945–1950: Central Collecting Point Wiesbaden, no. WIE 1930
From 15 December 1950: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dusseldorf
By descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
2015: Restituted to the Heirs of David Friedmann
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