Sitting woman with child - head studies of a farmer's wife
Oil study of a woman sitting to the left, putting on her hood. Behind it another study of this woman with her head tilted more forward. In the upper left half of the picture two head studies, below the half figure of a woman with an infant on her arm. With a dedication to the cultural historian Eduard Fuchs; signed in pencil at lower right: Mr. Eduard Fuchs/Ihr/Max Liebermann. Lower left: Katwijk 82;
Stickers and notes on the reverse: on the reverse an adhesive label: "Paul Roemer, Bellevuestr.10, Berlin W9, Liebermann-Frau", the no. "1006", a second small adhesive label with the no. "1043"
Collection Eduard Fuchs Berlin-Zehlendorf until 1933; 25.10.1933 confiscation by the Gestapo; forced sale (payment Reichsfluchtsteuer) 1937 by his daughter Gertraud Fuchs: Auction Rudolf Lepke, Catalogue 2114, 16. and 17.06.1937, No. 88 ("Studie zu einer holländischen Bäuerin"); auctioned there by the art dealer Victor Rheins (Unter den Linden 68, Berlin) according to the annotated catalogue of the RKD Den Haag (Netherlands Institute for Art History) for 155,- M (estimated price 100,- M); private collection P. R. (Berlin); auctioned on 8 December 1970 by the Ketterer auction house as No. 530 with illustration for DM 2000.00: "Kleines Stück der linken oberen Ecke angesetzt"; auctioned by H. M. (Hamburg); sold 1994 by the heirs of H. M.; on 29 November 1994 the study was sold for USD 10,794.00 by Christies London; whereabouts unknown
(Information on purchaser's name may be provided by the declarant if necessary)