Lot 46
  • 46

Paul Baum

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paul Baum
  • Herbstlandschaft bei Knokke (Autumn landscape near Knokke)
  • signed and dated Paul Baum / 1894. lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 58.5 by 75.5cm., 23 by 29¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Lempertz, Cologne, 17 May 1974, lot 40
Galerie von Abercorn, Cologne
Purchased by the previous owner from the above circa 1975

Exhibited

Kassel, Schloss Bellevue, Paul Baum, 1959, no. 257

Literature

Carl Hitzeroth, Paul Baum, ein deutscher Maler, Dresden, 1937
Wolfram Hitzeroth, Paul Baum, Ein Leben als Landschaftmaler, Marburg, 1988, p. 533, no. 46, illustrated

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There are areas of retouching to the sky visible under ultraviolet light, but the work is in very good condition, with delicate detail and strong impasto. Held in a moulded plaster and wood frame.
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