Stehendes Mädchen vor Bäumen. Um 1925.
Watercolor, color chalks and charcoal.
On brown-yellow mould-made paper. 69.2 x 50.1 cm (27.2 x 19.7 in), the full sheet.

With the estate stamp (Lugt 1829 d) and the signature of Erich Hecke, as well as with the date “1924” and the inscription “Dalmatia” on the reverse. [AW].

• Female nudes in nature are at the heart of the Expressionist's oeuvre.
• Exquisite paper work from the estate, signed by Mueller's companion Erich Heckel.
• These multi-figure nude depictions are the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Comparable works from the 1920s are now part of important museum collections, including the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin.
Joaquín Herrmann, La Paz, Bolivia (acquired in the 1960s).
Thomas Herrmann, La Paz, Bolivia.
Ewa Herrmann, La Paz, Bolivia.
Fanny Arroyo de Uria, La Paz, Bolivia.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 2007).

EXHIBITION: Otto Mueller 1874–1930, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1956, cat. no. 61.
Otto Mueller. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, June 29–October 14, 1964, Kunstblätter 4/5, cat. no. 17, p. 25 (with full-page color illustration).

LITERATURE: Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and drawings (CD-ROM), Munich 2003, Essen 2007/08, WVZ No. 315 (with color illustrations).
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Otto Mueller. Farbige Zeichnungen und Lithographien, Feldafing 1957, p. 25 (with full-page color illustration).
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Otto Mueller. Leben und Werk, Feldafing 1963, p. 242 (with color ill.).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 315th auction, June 12, 2007, lot 177 (with color ill.).
Otto Mueller, in: exhib. cat. Otto Mueller, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, April/May 1919.