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Property from the Estate of Benjamin D. Holt, Jr.

William Ritschel

The Fallen Comrade

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Benjamin D. Holt, Jr.

William Ritschel

1864 - 1949


The Fallen Comrade

signed W. Ritschel. and dated 1912. (lower right)

oil on canvas

48 ¼ by 58 ¼ in.

122.6 by 148 cm.

Executed in 1912. 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 108th Annual Exhibition, 1913, no. 108
Charles Holme, The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine & Applied Art, vol. 58, London1913, p. 254, illustrated
Frances Henderson Klingle, "Under the Chinook Arch: The Influence of the Group of Seven on Alberta Landscape Painting Between 1920 and 1960," phD dissertation, Edmonton, Alberta, 1985, pp. viii, 22, 35, pl. 10, p. 187, illustrated
The Annual Exhibition Records of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 1876-1913, Madison, Connecticut, 1989, p. 408