Lot 196
  • 196

Johann Amandus Winck

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Johann Amandus Winck
  • Flowers and Fruit on a Stone Ledge with Butterflies and Mice: A Pair of Still Lifes
  • the first, signed Joan.Amand.Winck.pinxit.Monadus.1805 lower left
    the second, signed Joan.Amand.Winck.pinxit.Natus.Eichstadt.ano.1804 lower right
  • both oil on cradled panel
  • each 12 1/4 by 18 in.
  • 31.1 by 45.7 cm

Provenance

(Probably) Knoedler, New York

Condition

Oil on cradled panel. Surface in generally good condition aside from surface dirt and craquelure. Under UV light, the varnish fluoresces green. There are areas of fluorescence scattered over each work, especially in the darks of the backgrounds at the edges.
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