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Carl Spitzweg
5th February 1808 – 23th September 1885
Carl Spitzweg was born on 5th of February in 1808 in Unterpfaffenhofen, Bavaria. Although trained as a chemist, he discovered quite early his talent for drawing and his affinity with art. Spitzweg travelled extensively during his lifetime and the impressions formed by his travels greatly influenced his work. Shortly after completing his studies in pharmaceutics in 1832, he visited Italy. It was particularly in the cities of Florence, Rome, and Naples that he discovered the many significant works of Western culture which were to leave a permanent imprint on him.
A severe case of dysentery in 1833 strengthened his resolve to abandon his career as a chemist and he proceeded to commit himself solely to his painting. In June 1835, he became a member of the Munich Art Association and travelled that same year to southern Tirol with the landscape painter Eduard Schleich, the Elder.
In 1839 he completed his first painting entitled ''The Poor Poet'. Although this recurring motif would later be considered his most well-known body of work, the painting was not accepted at this time by the jury of the Munich Art Association.
As regards his graphic production, the first publication in 1844 of his own illustrations in the Munich weekly paper 'Fliegende Blätter' is considered quite significant. His visits to the Industrial Exposition in Paris and the World's Fair exhibition in London in 1851 were his first contact with the Oriental scenes which would begin to inform his work.
To the deserving painter were bestowed numerous honours during the second half of Spitzweg's lifetime: in 1865 the Bavarian Royal Merit Order of St. Michael was conferred upon him, and in 1875 he was named an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Carl Spitzweg died on 23th of September in 1885 and was entombed in the historic South Cemetery in Munich.
He leaves behind a body of work dedicated to the townspeople who inhibit his genre scenes, and with acute and pointed, but never ill-natured humour he portrays the everday bourgeois life of his time.
Lit: Siegfried Wichmann, Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke, Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart: Belser, 2002.
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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Estève, Maurice
1904 Culan - 2001 ibid.
«Intérieur».
Watercolour and India ink on strong wove paper. Signed upper left and dated (19)38. Verso personal dedication «Merci de vos voeux pour 1958 et le délicieuses friandises de la Marquise! Avec nos souhaits les meilleurs Estève» according to available photo. Verso on the backboard numbered by a different hand «No 605A», inscribed «No d'archives» and «coll. P. Courthion», two printed labels from the Galerie Laurentin, Paris, one with the work's data, the other numbered by hand «36» as well as a printed transport label from André Chenue S.A., Paris, for the Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris, and further labels with the work's data, the handling and a numbering.
H 25,
After moving to Paris with his parents in 1913, it was the early Renaissance painters Jean Fouquet and Paolo Ucello who fascinated the young Estève during visits to the Louvre in the 1920s. His desire to become an artist was ignited. Largely self-taught, he became acquainted with the art of Cézanne, whom he admired, and visited the Atelier Colarossi in order to form himself artistically. Finally, from the 1930s onwards, he developed his own style, based on post-Cubist forms, which he composes in a poetically colourful way in the paintings of figures, still lifes and interiors. These become increasingly abstract during the 1950s, showing closely interlocking forms with rich, bold colours. Alongside Jean-Paul Riopelle and Pierre Soulages, Estève is an important representative of gestural-sensitive Tachism in France, also known as lyrical abstraction.
Description: Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris, with the work's data and the provenance, w/o date (around 2011).
Photograph confirmation: Verso inscribed with the work's data and the archive number, Ms Monique Estève, Musée Estève, Bourges, w/o date. With prior correspondence, 21./29.03.2011.
We would like to thank Ms Muriel Margotin, Municipality of Bourges, for the direct consultation of Ms Monique Estève and the current confirmation of the present documents via
Provenance: Collection P. Courthion, Paris; Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris; Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris; private collection Helmut Dudé, Basel; since then private collection
Archive: This work is registered in the Musée Estève, Bourges, under the number A-605.
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starting price: 12000,- EUR