Estimate

150.000 - 200.000

Session 1

17 May 2016

Hammer Price

Description

Oil on canvas
Signed

125x139 cm

Category

Paintings

Additional Information

This work belonged to Walter Rathenau, AEG heir and Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Weimar Republic. Rathenau assembled a remarkable painting collection with works of the 18th and 19th century as well as contemporary artists in Schloss Freienwalde, a palace that he acquired in 1909 as his summer resort.
In 1922 after the Rapallo Treaty with the Soviet Union - in which both sides renounced its territorial and financial claims established at the Brest-Litovsk Treaty – Rathenau is assassinated by two ultra nationalist “Organization Consul” officials. After his death the work by Zuloaga was donated to the Städel Museum by his mother in memory of her child, where it remained until the re-foundation of the Foundation created by Rathenau in 1918 and closed in 1933 by the Nazi party.
With the re-foundation of the “Walter Rathenau-Stift GmbH” in 1991, the work “Andalusia y Señorita” is exhibited at Schloss Freienwalde.

Provenance:
Colecção Walter Rathenau
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Rathenau Museum, Freienwalde
Private collection
Exhibitions:
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1903
Internationale Kunstausstellung, Kunstapalast zu Düsseldorf, 1904, nº 2274