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Artist or Maker: Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977)

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Provenance: The artist, from whom acquired by a private German collector (until 1999); sale, Christie's, London, 7 October 1999, lot 183.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Schleswig, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf Schleswig, Conrad Felixmüller, April - June 1990, no. 128, p. 200 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum, September - October 1990; Braunschweig, Kunstverein, November 1990 - January 1991 and Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, February - April 1991.

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Notes: Property of a Private West Coast Collector

Conrad Felixmüller had great interest in the poor and the depiction of their living conditions. In the present work, as well as in the oil painting Herbstabend Klotzsche (S 267, Private collection; fig. 1), the artist cast his figures against Klotzsche, a Dresden suburb where he was living at the time, and which epitomised the harshness of industrialised Germany in the 1920s.

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