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Franz Marc

Siberian Dogs in the Snow, 1909/1910

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 80.5 x 114 cm (31 11/16 x 44 7/8 in.)

framed: 97.8 x 131.4 cm (38 1/2 x 51 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen

Accession Number

1983.97.1

Artists / Makers

Franz Marc (artist) German, 1880 - 1916

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Inscription

lower right: F Marc

Provenance

Kunshandlung Brakl, Munich); [1] acquired c. 1910 by Dr. Ludwig Hopf [1884-1939], Aachen, Germany, and later Dublin, Ireland; [2] Hopf family; sold November 1958 through (Lea Bondi Jaray [1880-1968], London); to Stephen Kellen [1914-2004], New York; [3] gift 1983 of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kellen to NGA.

[1] According to Annagret Hoberg and Isabelle Jansen, Franz Marc: The Complete Works Volume 1, The Oil Paintings, London, 2004: 100, no. 79.

[2] Dr. Ludwig Hopf was a well-respected physicist in Germany, but had to flee with his family in 1939, having lost his position at the University of Aachen due to racial grounds in Nazi Germany. The family went to London and shortly thereafter, Dublin, Ireland where he was a lecturer at Trinity College. He died shortly after this relocation.

[3] See correspondence kindly provided by Marina Kellen French, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kellen, in NGA curatorial files. Ms. Jaray states in November 1958 letters to Stephen Kellen that she saw the painting in London some time before it was exhibited in Dublin in 1944, and that it had been in the same family since first exhibited in Munich.

Associated Names

Hopf, Dr. Ludwig
Kellen, Stephen M., Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1916: Franz Marc Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, Münchener Neue Secession, 1916, no. 40.

1961: German Expressionism, Pasadena Art Museum, 1961, no. 69, repro.

1966: Kandinsky and His Friends: centenary exhibition, Marlborough Fine Arts, London, 1966, no. 98.

1979: Franz Mark 1880-1916, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1979, repro.

1980: Franz Marc 1880-1916, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, no. 20, repro.

1991: Extended loan for use by Justice Anthony Kennedy, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1991-1997.

2005: Franz Marc - Die Retrospektive, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2005-2006, no. 24.

2006: Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2006-2007, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 64 (shown only in Houston).

2009: Marc, Macke und Delaunay. Die Schönheit einer zerbrechenden Welt (1910-1914) [Marc, Macke, and Delaunay. The Beauty of a Fragile World (1910-1914)], Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2009, no. 127, repro.

2018: Franz Marc and August Macke, 1909-1914, Neue Galerie New York; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 2018-2019 (shown only in New York).

Bibliography

1936: Schardt, Alois Jakob. Franz Marc. Berlin, 1936: 162

1940: Marc, Franz. Briefe aus dem Feld. Berlin, 1940: repro. opposite 36, as "Unsere Hunde" [Our dogs].

1976: Lankheit, Klaus. Franz Marc: Sein Leben und seine Kunst. Cologne, 1976:65, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 249, repro.

1989: Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 18, 19.

2004: Hoberg, Annegret and Isabelle Jansen. Franz Marc: The Complete Works, Volume 1, The Oil Paintings. London, 2004:100, no. 79, repro.