537
Adolph von Menzel
Frühstücksstunde (Familie im Kaffeehaus), Vor 1891.
Brush and Pen and ink drawing, and opaque white...
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200
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537
Adolph von Menzel
Frühstücksstunde (Familie im Kaffeehaus), Vor 1891.
Brush and Pen and ink drawing, and opaque white...
Estimation:
€ 40,000 / $ 47,200
Résultat:
€ 47,500 / $ 56,050

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Frühstücksstunde (Familie im Kaffeehaus). Vor 1891.
Brush and Pen and ink drawing, and opaque white over pencil.
Signed in lower right. On creme wove paper. 22.9 x 31.5 cm (9 x 12.4 in), the full sheet.

• Characteristic motif of a coffeehouse scene, one of Menzel's preferred places to draw
• Technically manifold and masterly executed
• Originally donated from Menzel for the charity raffle of the "Association of Berlin Artists"
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We are grateful to Dr. Claude Keisch, Berlin, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Collection Otto Gerstenberg, Berlin.
Art trader J. P. Schneider, Frankfurt a.M.
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin.
Sotheby‘s, London, auction on June 27, 2007, lot 19.
Private collection Berlin
Private collection Northern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Adolph von Menzel 1815–1905. Ölgemälde, Gouachen, Pastelle, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Galerie Caspari, Munich 1932, no. 34.
Adolph von Menzel. Spätes Debut, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Zürich, May 30 - September 7, 2002, p. 60, no. 33 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Max Jordan, Das Werk Adolph Menzels. Verzeichnis der Werke Adolph Menzels nach der Zeitfolge, Munich 1905, p. 72.
Julietta Scharf/Hanna Strzoda (ed.), Die historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg. vol. II, Berlin 2012, p. 169, no. 1005 (with illu.).