Sale: 512 / Modern Art II, Dec. 12. 2020 in Munich Lot 420

 

420
Theo von Brockhusen
Blühende Bäume (Baumblüte in Werder), Wohl um 1910.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)
Blühende Bäume (Baumblüte in Werder). Wohl um 1910.
Oil on canvas.
64.5 x 80 cm (25.3 x 31.4 in).

• Pastose depiction of the Brandenburg landscpae in spring.
• From the collection of Henry B. Simms
• Theo von Brockhusen became a member of the Berlin Secession in 1905
.

We are grateful to Mrs Nina Katzenstein, Hamburg, and Dr. Ute Haug, Kunsthalle Hamburg, for their kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Collection Henry B. Simms, Hamburg (verso with fragments of the collector's name)
Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Ausstellung einer Gemäldesammlung aus Hamburger Privatbesitz, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May - June 1918, no. 18 ("Kirschblüte").

LITERATURE: Henry B. Simms, Meine Bilder und einige Aufzeichnungen wie meine Sammlung entstand. Hamburg 1910, no p. ("Kirschblüte").




420
Theo von Brockhusen
Blühende Bäume (Baumblüte in Werder), Wohl um 1910.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)