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OTTO PETERSEN BALLE | A young Danish girl hanging up linen by a blooming chestnut tree in the garden of the vicarage in Aversi
Lot Closed
April 8, 02:33 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
OTTO PETERSEN BALLE
Estruplund Sogn 1865 - 1916 Copenhagen
A YOUNG DANISH GIRL HANGING UP LINEN BY A BLOOMING CHESTNUT TREE IN THE GARDEN OF THE VICARAGE IN AVERSI
signed and dated lower right: Otto P. Balle 1887; and inscribed on the stretcher: Has fanietror uid Blege Pladam: Aversi Præstegårdshave / malet 1887 af Otto P Balle
oil on canvas, unlined
unframed: 30.3 x 42.2 cm.; 12 x 16⅝ in.
framed: 36.8 x 48.9 cm.; 14½ x 19¼ in.
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Private collection, Denmark.
The work of Otto Balle was influenced by the Danish landscape painters Peter Christian Skovgaard, Vilhelm Kyhn and Johan Thomas Lundbye. He was an art critic as well as an artist, and a member of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation. His idyllic country scenes, such as this view of a girl in a garden, are deliberately detached from reality and free from social engagement.