
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) Aurelie Linocut printed in blue, orange, yellow (twice) and pink, 1906, on laid Japan, signed in pencil, Friedel records four examples in different colours in the Lenbachhaus, Munich and knew of seven other examples Subject: 18.2 x 16.7 cm Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1974 Literature: Friedel 5 (another impression illustrated on the front cover of the catalogue) This very rare linocut was printed in various colour combinations – the four illustrated in the catalogue raisonné and the present impression are each different. Timothy Benson notes an edition of perhaps ten or eleven (The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.219). An example of this linocut was exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Paris and in 1908 in Cologne and Bonn