Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
Circle of Tobias Stranover
Lemurs, a Scarlet Macaw, a Red-Billed Parrot, and a Cockatoo in a Landscape
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December 2, 05:41 PM GMT
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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
oil on canvas
canvas: 39 ¾ by 60 in.; 100 by 152.2 cm
framed: 46 ¼ by 66 ⅞ 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.