Wilhelm Kuhnert

Resting Lion

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December 9, 04:23 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

Wilhelm Kuhnert

German

1865 - 1926

Resting Lion

signed Wilh. Kuhnert lower right; signed, titled in German and inscribed Berlin on the reverse

oil on canvas

Unframed: 83 by 100cm., 32¾ by 39½in.

Framed: 95.5 by 112.5cm., 37½ by 44¼in.

To be included in Angelika Grettmann-Werner's forthcoming Kuhnert catalogue raisonné (no. 3554).

Erika Krüger, Berlin (label on the reverse)
Sale: Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 24 October 1997, lot 1684
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa, exh. cat., Frankfurt, 2018, p. 223, (illustrated in an archive photo hanging on the wall in the artist's Berlin studio)