KARL HOFER | SYBILLE

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July 29, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Royal Collection

KARL HOFER

1878 - 1955

SYBILLE

signed with the monogram and dated 35 (lower right)

oil on canvas

106 by 79cm., 41¾ by 31⅛in.

Framed: 121 by 94cm., 47⅝ by 37in.

Painted in 1935.

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Nierendorf Galleries, New York

Albert M. Bender, San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (acquired by 1957. Sold: Christie's, New York, 17th May 1984, lot 397)

Alexander Kashan Fine Arts

Private Collection, UK (acquired in the mid-1980s)

Thence by descent to the present owner

San Francisco Museum of Art (ed.), Magazine of Art, January 1949, illustrated p. 47

Alfred Frankenstein, 'Letters of a German Artist,' in San Francisco Chronicle, 1948-49, illustrated p. 24

Karl Bernhard Wohlert & Markus Eisenbeis (eds.), Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Cologne, 2007, vol. II, no. 1118, illustrated p. 216

Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Werner Zeppenfeld, Plastik, Max Beckmann, Graphik, Karl Hofer, Ölgemälde, 1936, no. 28

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute & San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Karl Hofer, 1936-37, no. 15

New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Karl Hofer, 1937, no. 14

Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Association, Loan Exhibition of International Art, 1937, no. 177

San Francisco, American Federation of Arts, In Memoriam, 1957-58, no. 41