Sale: 489 / Evening Sale, June 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 148

 

148
Karl Hofer
Frau mit Pflanzen, 1922.
Oil on canvas, doubled
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 150,000 / $ 162,000

(incl. surcharge)
Frau mit Pflanzen. 1922.
Oil on canvas, doubled.
Wohlert 2880. Monogrammed in lower right. With hand-written title on stretcher. 99 x 76 cm (38.9 x 29.9 in).

• "Mädchen mit Pflanzen" (Girls with Plants) is one of the main themes in Karl Hofer's oeuvre.
• From the sought-after period of creation in the 1920s
• On the cover of the catalog of Hanna Bekker vom Rath in 1961
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PROVENANCE: Max Vautier, Düsseldorf (verso with the stamp).
Private collection Berlin/Australia (acquired at an exhibition in Cologne in the early 1920s).
Art dealer Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main (acquired from aforementioned around 1960).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from aforementioned in 1961).
Ever since family property.

LITERATURE: Sales catalog, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, 5/ 1961, no. 112 (with illu. on catalog cover).




148
Karl Hofer
Frau mit Pflanzen, 1922.
Oil on canvas, doubled
Estimate:
€ 140,000 / $ 151,200
Sold:
€ 150,000 / $ 162,000

(incl. surcharge)