Bidspirit auction | Albert Bloch: Gebirgstunnel

Albert Bloch: Gebirgstunnel - BLOCH, ALBERT 1882 St. Louis/Missouri - 1961 Lawrence/Kansas Title: Gebirgstunnel. Date: 1916. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 89 x 59,5cm. Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower right: AB (ligated) 1916. Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Provenance: - Gordon M. McCouch (1920 directly from the artist; label) - Private collection, Lausanne (1983) - Gertrude Blendinger Collection (1998) - Private collection, Switzerland - Christie's London, 7244th auction, 21st June 2006, lot 335 (label) - Kunsthaus Lempertz, 905th auction, 2nd June 2007, lot 529 (label) - Villa Grisebach Berlin, 281st auction, 30th November 2017, lot 20 (label) - Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions: - Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, 1917 - Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt, 1917 - Kunsthaus Das Reich, Munich, 1918 - Daniel Gallery, New York 1921 - Museo Cantonale d'Arte Moderna, Lugano 1987 - Museo Communale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona 1992-1996; on loan from a private collection (label) - Frey-Näpflin Foundation, Stans 2006 (label) Literature: - Hoberg, Annegret/Adams, Henry (eds.): Albert Bloch - Ein amerikanischer Blauer Reiter, Munich 1997, p. 176 - Exhib. cat. Albert Bloch, Harald Kaufmann, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin 1917, cat. no. 15 - Exhib. cat. Albert Bloch, Munich: A Selection of Paintings from the Last Five Years 1913-1918, Kunsthaus Das Reich, Munich 1918, cat. no. 8 (''Gebirgstunnel'') - Exhib. cat. Exhibition of Paintings by Albert Bloch, Daniel Gallery, New York 1921, cat. no. 11 - Exhib. cat. Il Ticino nella pittura europea, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Moderna, Lugano 1987, p. 120, ill. - Exhib. cat. So weit das Auge reicht - Landschaftsbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten, Frey-Näpflin-Stiftung, Stans 2005, p. 19, ill. - Bloch participated as the ”amerikanische Stimme” in the first and second exhibitions of ”Blauen Reiter” (1911 and 1912). - He was closely associated with Herwarth Walden and his Sturm gallery, which exhibited his work on several occasions. - ”Gebirgstunnel” has an impressive exhibition history Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue Albert Bloch USA Blauer Reiter Modern Art 1910s Craftman's frame Mountains Painting Oil Landscape