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Lot description
Inscribed 'Tegernsee 1910 1912' and 'Knaben am Wasser 1911[?]' verso in pencil and with a slightly faded stamp "Nachlass AUGUST MACKE" (Lugt 1775b). The motif of bathers in nature is a popular artistic subject, as it allows the depiction of the nude to be combined with a landscape view. August Macke, too, made use of the diverse interpretative possibilities offered by this theme, which runs through his oeuvre in varying stylistic forms. Whilst in paintings such as "Komposition: Badende Jünglinge" (1911, Heiderich 343) or "Badende Frauen" (1913, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Heiderich 494) the ornamental forms of the bodies and the landscape merge, in our "Drei Knaben am Wasser" he focuses primarily on the spectacular landscape backdrop. The bathing pleasure of three boys at a mountain lake is rendered in delicate pastel tones and captures the carefree atmosphere of a summer’s day.