Lot 631
  • 631

Adolf Schreyer

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

Description

  • Adolf Schreyer
  • At the Watering Hole
  • bears the artist's initials AS (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 1/2 by 33 in.; 46.9 by 83.8 cm.

Provenance

Bangel, Frankfurt, February 21, 1922, lot 90 (as Araber an der Tranke);
Sotheby's, New York, April 18, 2008, lot 195;
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Condition

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There is some pressed craquelure. There is minute paint loss in the extreme upper right. Under UV; small retouching in the upper right al center left. Heavy masking varnish.
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Catalogue Note

Upon the artist's posthumous sale, his initials were added to several of his completed canvases by his wife Mary in agreement with the auctioneer Bangel.