Lot 8
  • 8

Heinrich Bürkel

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Heinrich Bürkel
  • Winterliche Kirche im Gebirge (Winter in Ramsau)
  • signed HBürkel lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 53 by 65.5cm., 20½ by 25¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Lempertz, Cologne, 24 November 1979, lot 287

Literature

Hans-Peter Bühler and Albrecht Krückl, Heinrich Bürkel.  Mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Munich, 1989, p. 127, pl. 80, illustrated in colour; p. 314, no. 738, catalogued & illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. There are only a few spots of possible retouching visible under ultraviolet light along the upper edge of the canvas, partially obscured by a varnish. Apart from very fine scattered craquelure, the work is in very good condition and ready to hang. Held in a burnished gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame with a name plate.
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