Lot 214
  • 214

Lovis Corinth 1858-1925

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Lovis Corinth
  • Appenzeller Bäuerin
  • signed Lovis Corinth and dated Appenzell 1895 upper left
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 5/8 by 11 in.
  • 41 by 27.9 cm.

Provenance

Feuerstein, Munich
A. Landerer, Breslau
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Charlotte Berand-Corinth, Lovis Corinth, Die Gemälde, Munich, 1992, p. 71, no. 121, illustrated (as whereabouts unknown)

Condition

Canvas not lined. The surface is extremely dark and soiled and with white patches of varnish bloom in the lower left quadrant. Minor craquelure at lower left corner. Under UV light: area of varnish bloom at lower left fluoresces, particularly around the flower, where there may be some retouching.
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