Siberian Dogs in the Snow
1909/1910
Artist, German, 1880 - 1916
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1983.97.1
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Artwork history & notes
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
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, no. 2, reprod. (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.
Inscriptions
lower right: F Marc
Wikidata ID
Q20191319