Spirit of Colour: Property from an Important Canadian Estate
Karl Hofer
Zeitungslesende junge Frau (Young Woman Reading a Newspaper)
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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Spirit of Colour: Property from an Important Canadian Estate
Karl Hofer
1878 - 1955
Zeitungslesende junge Frau (Young Woman Reading a Newspaper)
signed with the monogram and dated 53 (lower left)
oil on canvas
100.2 by 65.1 cm. 39⅜ by 25⅝ in.
Framed: 118.5 by 83.6 cm. 46⅝ by 32⅞ in.
Executed in 1953.
Walter Farmer and Renate Hobkirk, Cincinnati (acquired from the artist circa 1953-54)
Renate Hobkirk, Spain and Germany (1960s)
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 5 December 1975, lot 327 (probably consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above sale)
Thence by descent in 2018 to the present owner
Karl Bernhard Wohlert and Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 3, Cologne, 2008, no. 2579, p. 130, illustrated
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