Alter Bauer mit Pfeife. 1886.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated at bottom left margin. With a fragmented label and a stamped number on the reverse. 24 x 17.5 cm (9.4 x 6.8 in).

• This portrait reveals Hugo Kaufmann's preference for depictions of Bavarian folk life.
• He captured the sitter's nature, usually in a warm and brownish tone, with great mastery.
• Part of the same private collection for over 40 years.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (acquired in 1980, ever since family-owned).

LITERATURE: Irmgard Holz, Hugo Kauffmann, Berlin 1984, catalogue raisonné no. 673 (illustrated)
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Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Important continental pictures of the 19th and 20th centuries and pictures of Islamic interest. The properties of the trustees of the Major-Beneral E.H. Goulburn Settlement, Major G. Radcliffe [..] and from various sources, auction on November 28, 1980, lot 81 (illu.).