File:Marianne von Werefkin - Fischer.jpg
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Marianne von Werefkin: Fishermen ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q464016 |
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Fishermen label QS:Len,"Fishermen"
label QS:Lde,"Fischer" |
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Medium | watercolor, gouache and pastel on paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 43.5 cm (17.1 in); width: 36.5 cm (14.3 in) dimensions QS:P2048,43.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,36.5U174728 |
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Inscriptions | Monogram bottom right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Bonhams, London, 24.11.2008, lot 90 |
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JPEG file comment | http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15913/lot/90/ Bonhams, London, 24.11.2008, lot 90 Marianna Vladimirovna Verevkina (Werefkin, Marianne von) (Russian, 1860-1938) Fishermen signed with initials in Latin (lower right) watercolour, gouache and pastel on paper 43.5 x 36.5cm Fußnoten Marianna Verevkina studied at the Moscow Art School (1883) under I. M. Prianishnikov and between 1886–1896 attended art classes led by Ilya Repin. From 1896 until the start of World War I she lived in Munich, where her new style was developed. When her work was 'rediscovered' from 1960 onwards, German art historians acknowledged her important role in the development of German Expressionism. In Munich she was very much a figure in the contemporary art scene: she initiated the establishment of the 'St. Luke Brotherhood', was among the founding members of the 'New Society of Artists' in Munich, participated in exhibitions of the Sezession, Sonderbund, Der Blaue Reiter, and the first German Autumn Salon at Galerie Der Sturm. At the same time, Verevkina was also exhibiting in Russia, at the S. K. Makovsky Salon, and the First and Second Salons of Vladimir Izdebsky, 'Jack of Diamonds' (1910-1911). In addition, she participated in the Russian pavilion of XII International Biennale in Venice in 1920. The majority of Verevkina's works are in Switzerland, where she lived from 1914 until 1938. More recently, the first posthumous exhibition of the artist's works in Russia took place in 1997 in Moscow, during the 'Days of Switzerland'. Fishermen is very characteristic of Verevkina's œuvre. The apparent simplicity of the painting is deceptive. The spatial composition of the work with its broad horizon and without any defined centre, faces or events (bearing some similarity to the art of China and the Netherlands) is a means by which the artist prompts the viewer think of eternity. Further to emphasise symbolic import of the composition, the artist depicts the approach of dawn, the threshold between night and day, when the fi |
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