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Artist or Maker: August Macke (1887-1914)
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Provenance: The artist's estate (no. 35).
Willhelm Graf von Kielmannsegg, Essen, by circa 1923.
Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin.
Private collection, since 1934, and thence by descent to the present owner.
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Exhibited: Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung August Macke, 1920, no. 15; this exhibition later travelled to Wiesbaden, Neues Museum.
Berlin, Galerie von der Heyde, August Macke, Zur 20. Wiederkehr seines Todestages, 1934, no. 74.
Bonn, Kunstsammlungen, Tunisaquarelle von August Macke, 1955, no. 35.
Münster, Westfälischer Kunstverein, August Macke - Gedenkausstellung zum 70. Geburtstag, 1957, no. 134.
Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Macke, Aquarell - Ausstellung, 1957, no. 488 (illustrated p. 62).
Reutlingen, Spendhaus Reutlingen, August Macke, 1958, no. 120.
Munster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, August Macke, 1887-1914, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 1976, no. 270; this exhibition later travelled to Bonn, Städtisches Museum and to Krefeld, Kaiser-Willhelm-Museum.
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Literature: G. Vriesen, August Macke, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 488 (illustrated p. 301).
U. Laxner, Stilanalytische Untersuchungen zu den Aquarellen der Tunisreise 1914: Macke, Klee, Moilliet, Bonn, 1967, pp. 49-50, 53-54, 67, 75.
J.M. McCullagh, August Macke and the Vision of Paradise: An Iconographic Analysis, Austin, Texas, 1980, p. 44.
E.G. Güse, 'Raum und Fläche- Europa und der Orient, Zu August Mackes Tunis-Aquarellen', in exh. cat., Die Tunisreise, Klee, Macke, Moilliet, Münster and Bonn, 1982, pp. 144-147 (illustrated p. 145).
Exh. cat., August Macke, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Munich, 1986, no. 31 (illustrated p. 113).
M.M. Moeller, August Macke, Die Tunisreise, Munich, 1989, p. 19, 20 (illustrated p. 33).
U. Heiderich, August Macke, Aquarelle Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern, 1997, no. 512, p. 362 (illustrated p. 363).
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