Hans Thuar Lot n° 129

Hans Thuar Two black swans 1923 Oil on paper, mounted on card. 56.5 x 51.5 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'H. Thuar 23'. Eggeling 113 (with full-page color illus. p. 169) Provenance Estate of the artist; since then in family possession Exhibitions Bonn 1988 (Städtisches Kunstmuseum), Hans Thuar. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, cat. No. 26 with full-page color illus. p. 67; Stade/Neu-Ulm/Bonn 2021/2023 (Kunsthaus/Edwin Scharff Museum/August Macke Haus), Ziemlich beste Freunde. Hans Thuar and August Macke, p. 112 with color illus. "Birds interest me the most," said Hans Thuar in a letter to his son-in-law Wolfgang Macke in 1935. Cranes, storks and swans in particular offered him the opportunity to observe them in the wild. In the painting on offer, he captures the two birds in full format and captures their elegance and suppleness in a composition full of tension.