Impressionist and Modern Art

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Lot 21
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Fritz Beckert 1877-1962

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Description

  • Fritz Beckert
  • The luncheon table
  • signed Fritz Beckert and dated 1919, lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 31 5/8 by 23 7/8 in.
  • 78 by 60.5 cm.

Provenance

In the present owner's family since the 1930s.

Catalogue Note

Fritz Beckert was a student of Gotthardt Kuehl who founded the Dresdener Secession, a group of early German Impressionists, in 1892.  A member from 1909-1919, Beckert conveys a more intimate and personal viewpoint in The Luncheon Table than in the views of Dresden for which he is better known.  His studio and its contents were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945.