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Mihály Munkácsy

Seated Woman, Study for “Father's Birthday”

Auction Closed

May 22, 04:37 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mihaly Munkácsy

Munkács 1844 - Endenlich 1900

Seated Woman, Study for “Father's Birthday”


signed, dated, and inscribed lower left: Hommage affectueuse / a Madame Michel / Munkacsy / 1884

oil on panel

panel: 21 ¾ by 18 ⅛ in.; 55.2 by 46 cm

framed: 27 ½ by 23 ½ in.; 69.9 by 59.7 cm

Fred Schrader;

By whom sold, Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, Inc., 12 May 1978, lot 122 (as Woman in White);

Where acquired by Otto R. Schreiber;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

L. Vegvari, Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen Mihaly Munkácsy, Budapest 1959, pp. 57 & CXVI, no. 328, reproduced (as Vaters Geburtstag. Studie (?) : Sitzende Frau).