Watercolor, 1922. 360x515 mm; 14 1/4x20 1/4 inches. Signed, dated and annotated in pen and ink, lower left recto. Ex-collection Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
Corinth (1858-1925, see lots 22-48, 471) was a German artist who was instrumental in the Berlin Sezession group, eventually replacing Max Liebermann (1847-1935, see lots 18-21) as the group's president. The artistic output at the beginning of his career is more naturalistic, but after Corinth suffered a stroke in 1911, his oeuvre reflects a more Expressionist treatment of subjects such as family, landscapes, historical and literary themes. One of his most prolific periods was between 1918-25 during which he completed a series of landscape drawings, watercolors, etchings and lithographs at his home in Walchensee in the Bavarian Alps (see also lots 25 and 471). These evocative, lively and occasionally haunting landscapes have become regarded as some of Corinth's finest work.
