CHRISTIAN ROHLFS | Stillleben mit Melone (Still Life with Melon)

Private Collection, Berlin & London (acquired between 1928 and 1935)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount at the upper left and right corners. All four edges are deckled. On the verso there are remnants of an old exhibition label. There are artist's pinholes to all four corners of the sheet. There are minor tears and associated repairs to the extreme edges and all four corners of the sheet (the longest measuring 3cm in length). There are faint mat stains running along the extreme edges of the sheet. The sheet is time-stained and there is occasional light foxing, most noticeable in the upper half of the work. This work is in overall good condition.
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This work is recorded in the Christian Rohlfs Archiv at the Osthaus Museum Hagen under number CRA 195/19.