Edward CUCUEL (San Francisco 1875 - Pasadena 1954) - Lot 76

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Edward CUCUEL (San Francisco 1875 - Pasadena 1954) - Lot 76
Edward CUCUEL (San Francisco 1875 - Pasadena 1954) Spring Picnic, circa 1915 Oil on canvas, signed lower left, countersigned and numbered 3 on reverse. 65 x 80 cm On the back of the frame, label of Josef Refferle, gallery and framer in Munich (Germany). Provenance: private collection in eastern France, preserved by descent to the present day. This completely new painting most probably depicts the artist's wife Clara Lotte von Marcard with Frieda Blell, the wife of her friend, the painter Leo Putz (1869-1940). Having moved to Munich in 1907, Cucuel stayed during the First World War in Holzhausen on Lake Ammer, the probable location of the scene in our painting. This highly refined composition remarkably combines all the stylistic characteristics dear to this rare American post-impressionist painter: the two elegant friends, the flowers and delicacy of spring, the aquatic element and this idyllic and unique vision of gentle idleness. Bibliography: Fritz von Ostini, Der Maler Edward Cucuel, Zurich - Vienna - Leipzig, Amalthea, 1924 These two models, wearing a white dress and a dress with vertical black stripes, are featured in several of the paintings illustrated in this book, notably plate 7: Auf dem Schlossteich [On the Castle Pond], plate 27: Am Ammersee, plate 29: Das Picknick (in the Museum and Art Gallery, Bikenhead-Liverpool), plate 51: Der Wiesenbach [The meadow stream], and especially plate 70: Picknick im Frühling [Spring picnic], which also identifies the same location with identical trees.
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