Stehender Viertelstundenakt im Atelier. Um 1905.
Pencil.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. On brownish paper. 34.5 x 22 cm (13.5 x 8.6 in), size of sheet.
[SM].

• From the series of the "Viertelstundenakte", in which Fritz Bleyl and the other "Brücke" members were intensively occupied with nude drawings.
• Only a few of these seminal drawings by the artist have survived until today.
• Fritz Bleyl was a "Brücke" founding member.

PROVENANCE: Gertrud Tannert (the artist's wife, until 1974).
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (in 1974 on consignment from the possession of the above).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (until 1995: Ketterer Kunst).
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1995, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 370, SHG no. 820.

In good conditio. With very few stains and rubbed spots. Paper skinned in upper right corner.