Lot 32
  • 32

Bertram Hartman 1882-1960

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Bertram Hartman
  • Exotic Fantasy
  • signed C. Bertram Hartman, dated 13, and inscribed München, l.l.; titled Exotic Fantasy on the artist's studio label affixed to the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 20 1/2 by 39 1/2 in.
  • 52.1 by 100.3 cm.

Provenance

Spencer A. Samuels & Co., Ltd., New York
(Sale:  Christie's, London, June 27, 1988, lot 746, Important Symbolist Paintings & Drawings)
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994

Exhibited

New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Co., Ltd., Symbolists, 1970, no. 69, p. 37, illustrated

Literature

Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings VI, New York, 1990, pp. 152-153

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good general condition; frame abrasion along the left edge; a few scattered, minor losses (mostly along lower edge, one at lower right in blue/sea)
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