Lot 392
  • 392

Walter Stöhrer

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Walter Stöhrer
  • Negerkinder III (Black Children III)
  • signed Stöhrer and dated 65 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 115.2 by 90.5cm., 45 3/8 by 35 5/8 in.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner in 1966

Literature

Hanne Forstbauer, Ilka Merkert & Almuth Kunisch, Walter Stöhrer. Werkverzeichnis der Malerei. 1957-1999, Berlin, 2008, no. 65.3, illustrated in colour p. 116

Condition

The canvas is not lined. UV examination appears to show no signs of retouching.There is some canvas undulation, predominately to the lower right quadrant. There are a few isolated lines of stable craquelure visible to the thicker white pigment, and there is some minor pigment shrinkage to the white pigment towards the centre of the left edge. There is some surface dirt and this work could possibly benefit from a light clean. There is some lovely thick impasto and this work is in overall good original condition.
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