Franz Marc painting unseen for 70 years at auction for first time at Bonhams London
(Artdaily.org)

Pferd, an important painting by the German Expressionist painter Franz Marc, is one of the leading works in Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on Thursday 10 October. Unseen in public for 70 years and never before offered at auction, it is estimated at £350,000-550,000. A large work on paper, Pferd depicts Marc’s most defining and symbolic motif. The horse held a special place within the artist’s iconography and was the animal he chose most often to convey his spiritual vision. The painting dates from 1912, a year after Marc’s introduction to the Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky. The meeting proved pivotal to Marc’s artistic development, igniting a dormant passion for colour and its symbolic effects that informed the rest of his short career; he was killed in World War I in 1916. In December 1911, he and Kandinsky founded Der Blaue Rieter movement, dedicated to a new approach to art that was anti-m