Lot 151: Felix Nussbaum , 1904 - 1944 Le Jardin watercolour on paper laid down on board

signed and dated 11 Decembre 1942 watercolour on paper laid down on board

37 by 30 cm.

Acquired directly from the artist by the family of the present owner
Thence by descent

This work will be included in the online catalogue raisonné published by the Felix Nussbaum Foundation
OTHER OWNERS
Painted in Brussels, possibly in the apartment of the artist Dolf Ledel in the rue Nouvelle, where he was kept in hiding for a brief period in the fall of 1942. Nussbaum had been taken prison in 1940 directly after the German occupation of Belgian, where he had fled earlier with his partner Felka Platek, and taken to the Jewish prison camp Saint Cyprian in the Pyrenees. He had returned to Belgian and to his partner after escaping the camp, and worked in Brussels for another two year before he was captured again and sent to Germany where he died in 1944.