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Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)


Anita Rée - Head of a Woman

Lot-No. 412

Starting Bid: 4.000 €


Ca. 1919. Watercolour over pen and ink drawing. 33 x 24 cm. Unframed. Lower right signed Rée. Scratch. - Provenance: Alport collection Oxford; at last private collection London - R. is one of the most eminents artists of Hamburg. She began as pupil of A. Siebelist, one of the most important painting teachers in Hamburg at that time. Since 1910 she shared a studio with F. Nölken and F. Ahlers-Hestermann. In 1912 she took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession and the 'Gedok'. She was also a sought-after portrait painter. Being harrassed by the Nazis she died isolated on the island of Sylt in 1933. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Wuppertal, Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.), Jerusalem a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin, 2001 a. others.

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Anita Rée: Head of a Woman


Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)

Head of a Woman

Lot-No. 412

Starting Bid: 4.000 €

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Date: Ca. 1919
Technique: Watercolour over pen and ink drawing
Dimensions: 33 x 24 cm
Frame: Unframed
Mark/Notation: Lower right signed Rée
Condition: Scratch
Provenance: Alport collection Oxford; at last private collection London

Vita:

R. is one of the most eminents artists of Hamburg. She began as pupil of A. Siebelist, one of the most important painting teachers in Hamburg at that time. Since 1910 she shared a studio with F. Nölken and F. Ahlers-Hestermann. In 1912 she took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession and the 'Gedok'. She was also a sought-after portrait painter. Being harrassed by the Nazis she died isolated on the island of Sylt in 1933. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Wuppertal, Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.), Jerusalem a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin, 2001 a. others.

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