Lot 41
  • 41

Dora Hitz

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dora Hitz
  • Das Sonnenkind (The Sun Child)
  • signed Dora Hitz lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 136 by 92.5cm., 53½ by 36½in.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Grosse Kunstaustellung des Hamburger Kunstvereins, n.d.
Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Profession ohne Tradition: 125 Jahre Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, 1992, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Original canvas. There are two small areas of retouching to two repairs (patched on the reverse), visible under ultraviolet light. Apart from scattered fine craquelure and some light frame abrasion to the extreme edges of the canvas, this work is in very good condition, with a delicate palette, and ready to hang. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame with acanthus leaf motifs.
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