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Property of a Distinguished Private Collector

Circle of Tobias Stranover

Lemurs, a scarlet macaw, a red-billed parrot, and a cockatoo in a landscape

Lot Closed

October 21, 04:48 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished Private Collector

Circle of Tobias Stranover

Lemurs, a scarlet macaw, a red-billed parrot, and a cockatoo in a landscape


oil on canvas

canvas: 39¾ by 60 in.; 100 by 152.2 cm.

framed: 46¼ by 66⅞ in.; 117.5 by 169.9 cm.

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, 3 December 1974, lot 67 (as manner of Jacob Bogdani);
Thomas J. Perkins (1932-2016);
By whose estate sold, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2017, lot 426;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Though Czech by birth, Tobias Stranover worked throughout Europe, including in Dresden, London, and Sibiu. This large composition, produced by an artist in Stranover's circle, incudes an assortment of birds native to Central and South America and Australasia, imbuing the work with exotic flair.