Tina Blau (1845 Vienna - 1937 ibid.), Aus Holland'

oil on canvas mounted on panel, 24.1 cm x 28.9 cm, signed, exhibition label signed by the artist on verso, as well as 'N. 44', numbered and titled, winter 1875-76 (according to the Belvedere, the dating follows the information given by the artist herself in the collection of photographs she made at the end of her life), partially retouched, the canvas slightly detached from the plate at the upper left, some slight paint chipping at the edge of the picture, slight superficial scratches, plate with scratches on verso. We thank Dr. Markus Fellinger (Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere) for his helpful scientific support and confirmation of the painting's authenticity. Provenance: The painting was part of Tina Blau's first collective exhibition in Vienna in 1899, which was organised by the Pisko Art Salon and later toured through Austria and Germany as a travelling exhibition. The painting was acquired in the course of Blau's first solo exhibition (60 works were exhibited) in 1890 at the Munich Kunstverein and subsequently entered a private collection in the Ruhr area. The label on the back was inscribed by Tina Blau herself for this exhibition. Literature: The painting is listed in the Tina Blau Online-Cat. Rais. of the Belvedere under no. GE 259. Blau, Tina: Liste der 64 Bilder die ich am (...) an den Münchner Kunstverien sandte, in: Handschriftliche Werkliste ausgestellter und verkaufter Gemälde, unpublished manuscript, 1869-1916, pp. 15-16, here no. 44. Blau, Tina: Handschriftliche Werkliste ausgestellter und verkaufter Gemälde, unpublished manuscript, 1869-1916, Cat. No. 218. Exhibitions: Tina Blau exhibition, Gemälde-Salon Pisko, Vienna 1903, Cat. No. 44. collective exhibition Tina Blau, Kunstverein Munich 1903 (without catalogue)

The important Austrin Artist Tina Blau, was a landscape painter with an incomparable atmospheric subtlety. It is precisely this subtlety that the artist transfers to the painting surface with a coarser brushstroke. The picture must have been painted in the winter of 1875-76, most probably in Amsterdam, where all the paintings known so far from Tina Blau's first trip to Holland were created. Here a sailboat lies in a Dutch canal. The sails are atmospherically reflected on the water surface of the canal. The light reflections, which virtually shine through the partially unpainted canvas, and the light areas of shadow give the work a wonderful effect. It can be observed that the artist has worked out exactly this situation, but rather leaves out the fronts of the houses and lets them run into the depth of the picture.