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Blue Horse with Rainbow (Blaues Pferd mit Regenbogen)
Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)
(1913). Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper, 6 1/2 x 10 1/4" (16.5 x 26 cm). John S. Newberry Collection
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
2.1964
Maria Marc (1876-1955), Ried, Germany, until at least 1936 [1]. Curt Valentin, New York; John S. Newberry (1910-1964), New York, by 1948 [2]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964 (John S. Newberry Collection).
[1] "Nachlass Franz Marc bestätigt Maria Marc/ Blaues Pferd mit Regenbogen" verso, lower center sheet, pencil, hand of Maria Marc. See Alois J. Schardt, Franz Marc, Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1936, p. 168, no. 20 ("Pferd im Regenbogen"), which lists the work as being in the collection of Maria Marc. Included in the exhibition "Franz Marc: Gedächtnisausstellung," Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, May 1936 (no. 62: Pferd im Regenbogen, 1914).
[2] Included in the exhibition "Drawings and Watercolors, XIX and XX Centuries: From the Collection of John S. Newberry, Jr.," Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, February 12-March 31, 1948.
Blue Horse in Landscape (Blaues Pferd in Landschaft)
Blaues Pferd mit Regenbogen
Blue Horse with Rainbow
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