Lot 50
  • 50

Anton Faistauer

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Anton Faistauer
  • Maria Verkündigung (The Annunciation)
  • tempera and gouache on paper laid on canvas
  • 139 by 99.5cm., 54¾ by 39¼in.

Provenance

RHE Kunst & Antiquitäten Galerie, Zell-am-See
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 2000

Literature

Arthur Roessler, Der Maler Anton Faistauer, Vienna, 1947, p. 37, illustrated
Franz Fuhrmann, Anton Faistauer 1887-1930, Salzburg, 1972, p. 152, no. 291, catalogued

Condition

The work is divided into three panels of paper. There are tears to the upper left corner, the lower left corner, the left centre the bottom edge, an approx 1x1cm. area of torn paper to the upper right, and pinholes to the periphery of the work. There is some slight foxing to the surface, but the work is otherwise in good condition with vibrant colours. Held in a simple, gold and green-painted moulded plaster and wood frame, under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

This work is either after a detail of, or a study for, Faistauer's mural in the church in Morzg in Salzburg. Professor Dr Franz Fuhrmann dates it to circa 1924.