Lot 10
  • 10

Anselm Feuerbach

Estimate
45,000 - 65,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Anselm Feuerbach
  • Pfingstrosen (Still life with peonies)
  • oil on canvas

  • 99 by 78cm., 39 by 30¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, Munich, 12 December 1990, lot 62
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Condition

Original canvas, strip-lined along the extreme edges. There are scattered spots of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, notably to an area above the upper, furthest right flower, some spots near the the lower right corner, the centre of the lower edge and to and near the shadowed area at the far left. Apart from a few scratches with associated flecks of paint loss at the centre of the right and lower edges, this work is in good condition, with rich tones and fine detail. Held in a simple, modern, muted gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

A smaller still life of peonies of 1871 is in the collection of the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.