Lot description
Zwei Reiter in der Allee bei Sakrow. Wohl 1924.
Oil on canvas.
Cf. Eberle 1924/ 41. Signed in lower right. 63.5 x 75 cm (25 x 29.5 in).
With the stamp of Leopold Hess Berlin, art supplies, on the stretcher.
With an expertise from Prof. Matthias Eberle, Berlin, issued on October 16, 2018.
PROVENANCE: Fred Sanford (born Fritz Saalfeld), presumably acquired in Berlin before 1936.
Elisabeth Sanford, (born Kaufman, married Fleischer), inherited from aforementioned.
Eve Peterfreund (1928-2017), inherited from aforementioned.
"This is the poetry of true painting: with its own mans of expression, drawing and color, enchanting us with a feeling of light and air." Quoet from: Max Liebermann, Die Phantasie in der Malerei. Reden und Schriften, published by Günter Busch, Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 91.