Lot 182
  • 182

OSKAR MOLL | Südliche Landschaft mit Industrie (Southern Landscape with Factory Building)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Oskar Moll
  • Südliche Landschaft mit Industrie (Southern Landscape with Factory Building)
  • signed Oskar Moll (lower right); stamped with the Nachlass mark and inscribed no. 96 Dortmund on the verso
  • watercolour on vellum
  • 48 by 57.7cm., 18 7/8 by 22 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1922.

Provenance

Gallery Thomas, Munich (acquired by 1997)
Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel, Hamburg
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged and floating in its mount. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there are two spots of foxing to the background. There are artist's pinholes in the upper left and right corners, and the lower right corner. The pigments are bright and vibrant. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr Leistner for his help cataloguing this work which is recorded as N 68 in the archives of Dorothea Salzmann and will be included in the new digital catalogue raisonné for the artist.