Still life with fruit
Details
In strip frame. Inscribed by an unknown hand on the reverse on the stretcher, partially amended. Literature: Georg Muche, Bilder, Fresken, Zeichnungen, Tübingen 1950, ill. no. 40. Provenance: collection of Hans Fretz, Berlin 1937; private collection, Hessen; Karl & Faber, 8.6.1993, lot 1134, with col. illus.; private collection, Hessen.
Description
From 1931 to 1933, Muche worked as a professor at the Academy of Art in Breslau. Almost all of the works he created during this period were destroyed during the Second World War: this still life therefore offers a rare insight into this phase of the artist’s work, in which he turned his attention entirely to figurative painting. Here he creates a monumental still life in cheerful colours, in which the fruit appears almost threatening due to its huge proportions.
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