Lot 302 | Zwei liegende Kühe, Meer und Dünen

MATARÉ, EWALD
1887 Aachen - 1965 Büderich

Title: Zwei liegende Kühe, Meer und Dünen.
Date: Ca. 1946.
Technique: Watercolour and gouache over pencil on laid card.
Measurement: 31,5 x 26cm.
Notation: Inscribed lower right: test for a coloured woodcut. Inscirbed verso: Ewald Mataré, Aquarell; Zwei Kühe, Meer und Dünen.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (denotation verso: Vömel)
- private ownership
- Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Auc. 12.6.1991, Lot 1981
- Galerie Weick, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions:
- Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern/Städtisches Museum Heilbronn, 1981

Literature:
- Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus/Koekkoek-Haus Kleve e.V. (eds.): Ewald Mataré - Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle, Cologne 2015, cat. rais. no. 1946-8, ill.
- Klapheck, Anna (ed.): Ewald Mataré - Aquarelle 1920-1956, Munich 1983, cat. rais. no. 179, ill.
- Exhibition catalogue Ewald Mataré, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserlautern/Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1981, cat. rais. no. 76

In Ewald Matarés Oeuvre the watercolours - about 227 are preserved - "only" occupies a modest place. Nevertheless, the artist views them inseperablely connected to his suplutures and woodcuts. Even though he once described his watercolours as studies, he keeps them like a trasure and seperates himself only occasionally from individual sheets.

As shown in both examples Mataré repeatedly paints cows which he places them in natural contexts infront of dunes. The extremely reduced forms and strictly interwining forms are reminiscent of his sculptures. This way Mataré's watercolours also evolve from observations of nature. Here, he follows his conviction of the order of the ornaments which conceal nature's law. All sensations underlie the ornament. It is the external expression, inner suspense and movemnet. Mataré simply wants to tell this but not illustrate it - his works are always outside of time.