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Lot 213
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Leopold Bode, German 1831-1906

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Leopold Bode
  • das märchen van der wasserfee undine

  • a set of six, two signed and dated 1878

  • pencil, pen and ink, watercolour on paper laid on canvas

  • each 125x57cm.; 49¼x22½in.

Catalogue Note

Leopold Bode was a painter who specialised in frescoes and illustrations.  These panels are among his best known illustrations and describe the fairy tale of Undine, written in 1811 by Friedrick Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué.