WILLIAM HENRY DETHLEF KOERNER | BANDIDOS ON THE RUN

Auction Closed

September 17, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Collection of American Illustration

WILLIAM HENRY DETHLEF KOERNER

1878 - 1938

BANDIDOS ON THE RUN

signed with initials WHDK (lower center)

oil on board

26 ¾ by 39 ¼ inches

(67.9 by 99.7 cm)

Painted circa 1935.

Ruth Koerner Oliver (the artist's daughter)

S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., Florida, 1974 (acquired by from the above)

By descent to the present owner

Wallace Smith, "Señor Henpeck," The Saturday Evening Post, October 12, 1935, illustrated pp. 14-15