CORINTH, LOVIS1858 Tapiau/East Prussia - 1925 Zandvoort


Title: Apfelstillleben.
Date: 1920.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 56 x 66cm.
Notation: Signed and dated twice upper left: Lovis Corinth 1920 1920.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Kunsthandlung Dr Otto Burchard, Berlin
- Lilly von Mallinckrodt-Schnitzler, Frankfurt a. M.
- Private collection (by succession)

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthandlung Ernst Arnold, Dresden 1923
- National-Galerie, Berlin 1926 (No. 318)

Literature:
- Berend-Corinth, Charlotte: Lovis Corinth - Die Gemälde, catalogue raisonné, newly edited by Béatrice Hernad, Munich 1992 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 785, p. 753, illus.

- A masterly still life of particular expressiveness rarely offered on the auction market
- One of the 30 still lifes that Corinth modelled on viands
- From a period of great creative power, characterised by expressive, self-confident and spontaneous painting
- From the important Lilly von Schnitzler collection and in family ownership for almost 100 years.