Boys Bathing Near Bad Kösen

Prints and Drawings

c. 1895

Max Liebermann
German, 1847-1935

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Liebermann
Title: Boys Bathing Near Bad Kösen
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1900
Medium: Watercolor, over traces of black chalk, with scraping, on cream wove paperboard
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in pen and ink: "M. Liebermann"; inscribed on the original backing: "84 and 2465"
Dimensions: 50 × 65.2 cm (19 11/16 × 25 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.265

Albert Lamm, “Salon Gurlitt,” Das Atelier VII:6 (Mar. 1897), p. 5.
Hans Rosenhagen, Liebermann (Bielefeld/Leipzig: Velhagen & Klassing, 1900), p. 46.
“Der Kunstmarkt,” Der Cicerone VIII:1–2 (Jan. 1916), p. 35.
“Der Kunstmarkt,” Der Cicerone VIII:5–6 (Mar. 1916), p. 118, no. 137.
Gustav Pauli, Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert, in Geschichte der Deutschen Kunst, Georg Dehio (editor) (Berlin/Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1934), p. 343, fig. 473 (location erroneously given as Berlin, Nationalgalerie).

Berlin, Salon Gurlitt, Ausstellung der Gesellschaft deutscher Aquarellisten, Mar. 1897.
New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Feb. 22–Apr. 22, 2000, cat. 1 (ill.).

Sold by Fritz Gurlitt (1854–1893), Munich, to Hugo Reisinger (1856–1914), New York, 1906; sold American Art Galleries, New York, Jan. 18–20, 1916, lot 137, to Oskar (Dreßler) Dressler (1856–1941), New York; by descent, until 2000. John and Paul Herring, New York. Private collection, Germany, from 2001. Sold by Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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