Donna Lucia (Porträt Raimonde Astrie). 1914.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. 68 x 56 cm (26.7 x 22 in).

• The artist met the group around Henri Matisse in Paris in 1905
• During a stay in Spain in WWI the artist made this portrait of his wife the writer Raimonde Astrie as Donna Lucia.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Private collection Germany (acquired from the administrator of aforementioned estate).

LITERATURE: Wilma Weidmann Erinnerungen an Louis Seel. In: Wiesbadener Leben 2/1995 pp. 8ff. (with illu. on p. 11).