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Description: Painted in 1919.

signed with the monogram and dated 19 (lower right)

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Bernhard Koehler, Berlin
Josef Hackmey, Tel Aviv
Private Collection, Tel Aviv (sale: Sotheby's, Munich, 7th June 1989, lot 16)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
EXHIBITED

Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Erste Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst, 1920, no. 3
Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum, Jubilee Exhibition, Masters of Modern Art, 1982, no. 24
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Andrea Firmenich, Heinrich Campendonk. Leben und expressionistisches Werk, Recklinghausen, 1989, no. 792, illustrated
CATALOGUE NOTE

Heinrich Campendonk, a close friend of Franz Marc, had been strongly associated with the Blaue Reiter group and participated in major exhibitions of German expressionist art at the Galerie der Sturm in Berlin. Bernhard Koehler, possibly the first owner of the present work, was one of the most important patrons of Franz Marc and supporter of the German Avant-Garde.

Bild mit Mond (Picture with Moon) was executed in 1919, just after the end of World War I, and shows the artist's shift to a new and more independent style. The theme of harmony between nature and mankind is still eminent in his art, however, its depiction is now characterised by a more linear, cubist language. In the present work, Campendonk interrupts the darkness of the night with glowing fractions of red, green and white, while giving the work a dynamic and rather mysterious atmosphere.

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Dimensions: 70 by 38cm., 27 1/2 by 15 7/8 in.