"Naked girl"

(1887 Meschede – 1914 near Perthes-lès-Hurlus) "Nude Girl." Originally titled "Skillfully Sketched Female Nude – Seated, Leaning on Right Fist and Brushing Hair from Face with Left Hand." The four years preceding the First World War were the brightest in Macke’s creative work, during which several developments in modern art reached their culmination. Dreamlike park landscapes and girls became the main motifs of the expressionist. In 1910, he met Franz Marc, who became a close artistic friend, and in 1911 he joined the art group "Der Blaue Reiter," led by Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, in which he participated in the almanac and exhibitions. One of the last significant events in Macke’s creative life was a trip to Tunisia, which he undertook in April 1914 together with Swiss artists Louis Moilliet and Paul Klee, and from which he returned with a rich assortment of magnificent watercolors. Pencil/paper. Probably inscribed on the reverse by the artist’s widow, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, with the artist’s note, title, location Bonn, and the date 1911, as well as a condition stamp (Lugt 1775b). On the mat, also in the same hand, with the artist’s note, title, and date, as well as a condition stamp with handwritten number BZ 2.24. Approximately 19.8 cm x 19.4 cm. Framed. Literature: Heiderich, Ursula: August Macke. Drawings. Catalogue raisonné, Hatje, Stuttgart 1993, p. 358, cat. no. 879. Exhibition: August Macke, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin 1934, catalogue no. 46 (?).