Framed image
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Verso
John Marin American, 1870-1953
Kufstein, Austrian Tyrol, 1910
Watercolour on paper
40 x 45.7 cm
15.5 x 18 in
15.5 x 18 in
1180003
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Provenance
The artist.Estate of the above.
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.
Exhibitions
London, Waddington Galleries, John Marin, October 3-26, 1963, no. 3, illustrated.Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, John Marin 1870-1953: A Centennial Exhibition, July 7, 1970-June 6, 1971, p. 27, no. 22, illustrated.
London, JC Gallery, James Ward presents: American Modernism, 2023
Literature
S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 346, no. 10.37, illustrated.
In the summer of 1910, Marin spent a number of weeks in the Austrian Alps. The subject of his second solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery located in NYC, in February 1911, his fluid and vividly coloured Tyrolean watercolours mark a breakthrough in his artistic practice. For the first time, the artist worked with little or no graphite underdrawing, painting his most freely worked watercolours to date and communicating his feeling of energy and joy in the environment. In the present work, Marin applied bright, transparent washes with rapid gestures and plenty of water, emphasising the contour of a hill with an outline of bright yellow pigment that would become one of his trademarks.
