Mood in red
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| Mood in red (half act) |
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| Lovis Corinth , 1909 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 96 x 71.3 cm |
| Private collection |
Mood in red (semi-nude) is a painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth from 1909. The picture shows a female semi-nude and is currently in private ownership.
Image description
The catalog raisonné of the paintings by Charlotte Berend-Corinth succinctly describes the picture as a “female half-nude with a red cloth against a reddish background”. It shows a woman sitting on a chair with a bared body in a frontal view, the body being circumcised in the area of the thighs. The body is partially enclosed by a transparent red cloth that falls from the head as a veil, exposing the entire upper body and stomach and closes on the woman's lap. The face is averted to the left of the viewer, the right arm is raised and lies with spread fingers on the temple of the person portrayed and fixes the cloth there. The left upper arm lies against the body, the forearm is angled and spread apart and the hand also holds the veil here and thus prevents it from falling over the upper body. In the lower area, the brown back of the chair forms a line with the woman's hips and the lower, gray area of the wall. Above this area, the background is designed in red with a pattern.
The picture is signed in black on the lower left edge with the name of the painter and the year Lovis Corinth / 1909 .
interpretation
The picture Mood in Red is described in the picture description of the Lempertz auction house as "one of those acts of revealing sensuality that are particularly characteristic of Corinth's work":
“The female figure is prominently and dramatically staged in front of a warm, red-tinged background, whose décor looks oriental. Wrapped in a thin, transparent gauze veil, the woman reveals her upper body smiling as if half turned away in a theatrical gesture - associations of Roman vestals , exotic dancers or contemporary art of expression à la Wigman , Palucca or Tilla Durieux force themselves. A game of concealing and revealing the flesh, which is masterfully characterized in delicate tones, is offered, in which the viewer plays the role of the voyeur, a game that alternates between the expectations of a bourgeois epoch for an erotic theme and the powerful new painting as she represented Corinth. "
Creation, exhibitions and provenance
According to Charlotte Berend-Corinth, the picture Mood in Red was painted in Berlin. It was first exhibited in the Berlin Secession in 1913 as picture no. 148 and then in 1917 by the Kestner Society in Hanover as part of a special exhibition on Lovis Corinth (paintings, drawings, graphics). In 2006 the picture was part of the exhibition Body, Face, Soul, Images of Women from the 16th to the 21st Century in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
The picture was initially owned by Henry B. Simms in Hamburg and later moved to the Georg Schäfer Collection in Schweinfurt. It then ended up in the collection of Rudolf Leopold in Vienna. On December 3, 2010, the picture was auctioned at the Lempertz auction house in Cologne as lot 11, with an auction result of between 200,000 and 250,000 euros.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth: The paintings . Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1992; BC 405, p. 115. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
- ↑ a b c d e Image description ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for auction at the Lempertz auction house.
literature
- Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth: The paintings . Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1992; BC 405, p. 115. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .