Inscr. lower right: LUX; verso on the upper stretcher frame: Th. LUX la garce mars 35
TLF: "La Garce [The Hussy]", 1935 [201]
Private collection USA
Provenance: 2011 estate of the artist
TLF: "[Painted] in Moritz and Eva Noack's apartment in Siemensstadt, which I shared with Werner Jackson in the spring of 1935." [201]
TLF: "My first picture in Siemensstadt was again an “ideal woman”... although ... the “Skipper’s Daughter” in Paris had been cosmopolitan; my Berlin one definitely represents Germany, my Germany. She is a sturdy Dienstmädchen as strong as an ox ... in the middle of spring-cleaning. No sooner had I settled at my new address in the Jungfernheideweg than the well-remembered Thursday morning concert came through the open back windows, of carpets being beaten by a horde of females..., on the day set aside for this by the Polizei – and I had only to look out, and there was... my heroine, such as I have portrayed her in La Garce. The French title imposed itself as a reminder, not to get sentimental over the lost paradise of childhood memories." [205]
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