Max Heimann, Hands of the Artist's Wife with Bird

Max Heimann 1909-1953

Hands of the Artist's Wife with Bird

oil on board

34.5 x 29.3

(lower right) 'Heimann'

1994-33

@Max Heimann

Photo: Bridgeman images

Heimann painted portraits, street scenes and many still-lifes often with a sense of heightened realism. Here, the little bird pulling the string taught, seems to be in control, while the...

Provenance

presented by the artist's widow Ellen Bunger

Exhibitions

Max Heimann

Literature

'Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45' (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 27.

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