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Gordon Mallet McCouch (1885–1956), an American artist, was a painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Born in Philadelphia, he died in Locarno. From 1902 to 1905, he attended Howard Pyle’s art school, then worked as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers. In 1911, he emigrated to Europe and settled in Munich, where he attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts with Heinrich von Zügel. Through Carl von Marr, he came into contact with modern art circles, including representatives of Der Blaue Reiter. In 1913, he exhibited at the first German Autumn Salon.
At the beginning of the First World War, he took refuge with his wife in Switzerland, first in Zurich, then in Zug in 1916. From 1917, he lived in Ascona, where he met numerous internationally renowned artists, before settling in Ronco sopra Ascona in 1922. In 1924, he was among the co-founders of the artists’ association “Der Grosse Bär” and became friends with Walter Helbig. After the association was dissolved in 1941, he joined the “Società Amici delle Belle Arti” in Ascona.
He presented his work in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. Retrospectives were devoted to him in 1982 and 2006 at the municipal museum of modern art in Ascona, and in 2015 at the Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst in Rancate.
This profile brings together identity references for Gordon Mallet McCouch and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Germann
References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.
Oil on canvas
Ponte Vecchio, Florenz, 1933
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2021-03-24
Published result : 3646 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 3000–4000
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Oil on canvas
Der Quai, 1924
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2019-03-20
Published result : 13369 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Der Weinkeller.
Öl auf grober Lwd
Date to be documented
Published result : 7500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 5500
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Oil on canvas
Ponte Vecchio, 1933
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Ohne Titel
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
In trattoria, ca. 1934
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Passaggio a livello, 1930-34
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Stadtlandschaft, 1947-50
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on canvas
Häuser im Wald, 1918
Öl auf Leinwand.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Öl auf Papier, auf Holzunterlage montiert.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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