Alfred Henry Maurer (American, 1868-1932) | Flowers in a Vase

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Description: Gouache and watercolour on paper, 54 x 45.7 cm
Catalogue note: Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter who worked in many of the styles of the early 20th century: Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism. In 1897, he was one of the first American artists then to travel to Paris to experience the new art movements developing there. Although he exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early 20th century, Maurer did not achieve the fame or recognition of many of his contemporaries. The artist was depressed, not only because he gained limited critical acclaim for his career, his father also denied him support and had a pronounced disdain for Maurer’s art. The death of his mother and increasingly depressed years of sufferings led to his suicide in 1932, at 64 years old.The artist’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among others.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 17035, Lot 135, Invoice no. DB19011611. Private collection, San Diego, California| Estate of the above| Christie's, New York, 31 May 1990, lot 416, sold by the above| Acquired by the present owner from the above
Catalogue no.: 2019P0245-AHM