Small landscape
Finding on the reverse:
On the top left of the stretcher a white label: "B.A. 00739", on the right half of the label a round stamp: "ZOLL I-11 / Kreuz als Zeichen", on the right next to it handwritten in blue: "985 / G. K. 2211-1", to the right of it handwritten in blue: “B 6223”, on the top of the right stretcher a label partially torn off and covered by canvas: "GAL...FLECHTHEI / BERL.../ Lüt... DÜSSELDO / Königsallee 3.../ B ...23 / D ... / E ...(3? ) 8 / Ju... Gris /" Title illegible, only one word, below BStGS label: "Inv. Nr. 14236 Kleine Landschaft", white sticker with jagged edge and blue border at bottom centre, on it handwritten in black: “B 3”, black stamp at centre left: “Rudolf Richter / Düsseldorf /” [illegible address].
Label affixed to the stretcher:
1) "Gal... Flec... / Düs..." (destroyed);
2) "B.A. 00739" with Swiss customs stamp;
3) "B 3";
Stamp, partially pasted over: "Richter Düsseldorf 14 Am Wehrhahn 72 Fernsprecher 733";
"G.K. 2211-7";
On the canvas:
In blue pencil: "8496";
"X 7985" (for the “X”, the upper ends of the letter have been drawn curled outwards.
n.d. - n.d., Galerie Simon, Paris, presumably acquired by the artist,
n.d. - n.d., whereabouts unknown,
n.d. - n.d., Alfred Flechtheim Gallery, Berlin, probably on commission,
at least 1949 - 1969, Theodor Werner (1886 - 1969) and Woty Werner (1903 - 1971, née Anneliese Rütgers), Potsdam/Munich,
since 1971/1972, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, acquired as a bequest from Theodor and Woty Werner, Munich
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany