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Lot 129 Dα

Hans Thuar - Zwei schwarze Schwäne

Auction 1248 - overview Cologne
05.06.2024, 11:00 - Modern Art and Contemporary Art - Day Sale
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Bid

Hans Thuar

Zwei schwarze Schwäne
1923

Oil on paper, mounted on card. 56.5 x 51.5 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'H. Thuar 23' in black lower left.

"Birds interest me the most," said Hans Thuar in a letter to his son-in-law Wolfgang Macke in 1935. Cranes, storks and swans in particular offered him the opportunity to observe them in the wild. In the painting on offer, he captures the two birds in full format and captures their elegance and suppleness in a composition full of tension.

Catalogue Raisonné

Eggeling 113 (with full page col. ill. p. 169)

Provenance

Estate of the artist; thenceforth in family ownership

Exhibitions

Bonn 1988 (Städtisches Kunstmuseum), Hans Thuar. Zum 100. Geburtstag, cat. no. 26 with full page col. ill. p. 67; Stade/Neu-Ulm/Bonn 2021/2023 (Kunsthaus/Edwin Scharff Museum/August Macke Haus), Ziemlich beste Freunde. Hans Thuar und August Macke, p. 112 with col. ill.