Carlo Mense Lot n° 143

Carlo Mense Landscape with Good Samaritan (Russian Winter Landscape) 1921/1922 Oil on canvas. 78.2 x 78.3 cm. Framed. Signed in black lower right 'C. Mense' lower right. - With marginal defects and slight light-stain due to framing. Drenker-Nagels 52 Provenance Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich; Hofmann Collection, Tokyo (1923); Walter Schwarzenberg Collection (1885-1964), Brussels; Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels 1932 ("Vente Collection Walter Schwarzenberg"), lot 323 (with label on the reverse); privately owned, Belgium Exhibitions Brussels 1931 (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Exposition de l'Art Vivant Literature Oskar Beyer, The infinite landscape. Über religiöse Naturmalerei und ihre Meister, Berlin 1922, plate 31; Ostdeutsche Monatshefte, 3. Jg., 1922, Heft 9, p. 307; Der Cicerone, 15. Jg., 1923, p. 381; Klara Drenker-Nagels, Carlo Mense. His Life and Work from 1909 to 1939, Cologne 1993, pp. 104-106, with illus. The painting formerly belonged to the collection of Walter Schwarzenberg (1885-1964), the founder of the Brussels gallery "Le Centaure" and publisher of the magazine of the same name. Schwarzenberg played a central role in establishing the German and French avant-garde, especially Surrealism. For economic reasons, Schwarzenberg had his collection auctioned off at the Galerie Georges Giroux on February 1 and 2, 1932.