Lot 27
  • 27

Lotte Laserstein

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lotte Laserstein
  • Boy with a Red Cap
  • signed Lotte Laserstein lower right
  • oil on paper
  • 48 by 48.5cm., 19 by 18Ā¾in.

Provenance

Agnew & Sons, London
PurchasedĀ from the above by the present owner in 1987

Exhibited

London, Thos. Agnew & Sons and The Belgrave Gallery, Lotte Laserstein, Paintings and Drawings from Germany and Sweden, 1920- 1970, 1987

Condition

Oil on paper. The artist's sheet is hinged to a sheet of card, to the back along it upper corners. Colours are bright and fresh and the picture is in good condition. Presented glazed and framed.
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Catalogue Note

Lotte Lasertein trained at the Berlin Academy of Arts under Eric Wolfsfeld. She had her first solo show at Fritz Gurlitt's Berlin gallery in 1930, but shortly afterwards was forced to flee to Sweden during the Third Reich.