Gabriele Münter

Mme Robert
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Mme Robert
Artist
Gabriele Münter
1877 Berlin - Murnau 1962
Coloured linocut on fine Japanese laid paper. (1907). C. 18 x 12 cm (sheet c. 18.5 x 12.5 cm). One of only 6 known copies, each in different colour variations. Signed lower right, inscribed ‘Woodcut. Hand proof.’ lower left.
Further information
Hoberg 11.
Exhibition
Kontur, Farbe, Licht: Das Wesentliche zeigen. Gabriele Münter 1877-1962, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte/Kestner Pro Arte, Hannover 2015/16, Kat.-Nr. 4, S. 15;
Gabriele Münter. Menschenbilder, Bucerius Kunst Forum,
Hamburg 2023, Abb. S. 95 und 191;
Gabriele Münter. Retrospektive, Leopold Museum, Wien 2023/24, farb. Abb. S. 75;
Gabriele Münter. Meine Sache ist das Sehen, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Herford 2024/25, o. Kat.
Provenance

Estate of the artist, stamped on the reverse;
Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf;
Private collection, Germany, acquired from the aforementioned in 1992.
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Coloured linocut on fine Japanese laid paper. (1907). C. 18 x 12 cm (sheet c. 18.5 x 12.5 cm). One of only 6 known copies, each in different colour variations. Signed lower right, inscribed ‘Woodcut. Hand proof.’ lower left.

Münter’s rare colour linocut was created during her stay with Wassily Kandinsky in Sèvres near Paris. In these early prints, Münter works with flatness, clear contours and compressed forms. She usually prints the sheets by hand in varying colour variations on Japanese paper and in small editions. To do this, she lays down the colours on the linocut plate not with the usual roller, but with a brush. This technique allows her to achieve more transparent and delicate layers of colour, as seen here with a soft blue and brown tone. In some instances, she even experiments with up to six different colours.
This portrait is rarely offered on the auction market.