Lovis Corinth - The old drinker
auction 411, Lot 694
DECEMBER AUCTION
on 6 December 2023 to 7 December 2023
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort
The old drinker
Differenzbesteuerung
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort
The old drinker
Signed and dated 1889 upper right. Oil auf canvas. 75 x 59 cm. Relined. Restored. Minor damage to frame (92.5 x 77.5 cm).
Various labels verso: old adhesive label with handwritten inscription "Corinth N° 12142 / Der alte Dorfmusikant". - Adhesive label of the Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, numbered 1021. - Adhesive label of the Kunstsalon Abels, Cologne. - Adhesive label of the Georg Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt, numbered 77216019.
Literature: Biermann, Georg, Lovis Corinth. Bielefeld / Leipzig 1922, page 9, illustration 11, titled there "Der Schnapsriecher" and page 48. - Berend-Corinth, Charlotte, Die Gemälde von Lovis Corinth. Werkkatalog. Munich 1958, page 61 f., catalogue raisonné number 67 and page 297, illustration 67.
Provenance: Galerie Commeter, Hamburg. - Kunsthaus Brakl, Munich (1922; after G. Biermann).- Georg Schäfer collection, Schweinfurt. - Neumeister, special auction "Bilder aus Sammlung Georg Schäfer I", 24 February 2005, catalogue number 14. - Private collection, South Germany.
