Lot 3212 - A200 19th Century Paintings - Friday, 01. April 2022, 04.00 PM
CARL SPITZWEG
(1808 Munich 1885)
Three men in a tavern. Circa 1840/45.
Oil on canvas.
Indistinctly signed lower left and S in rhombus lower right. Signed on the canvas verso: Spitzweg.
23.2 × 30.7 cm.
Expertise: Prof. Dr. Wichmann, 26.3.1988, with notation that it will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné (from 2002) (copy available).
Provenance:
- Estate of Carl Spitzweg.
- Sold by the Spitzweg heirs to the Schottenhammel family.
- Sale Ludwigs-Galerie, Munich, 25.10.1919, Lot 650.
- Private collection, Munich.
- Collection of Oscar Skaller, Berlin.
- Sale Cassirer-Helbing, Berlin, 13.12.1927, Lot 37.
- Northern German private collection.
- Sale Bangel, Frankfurt.
- Private collection, Zurich.
- Sale Galerie Dobiaschofsky, Bern, 9.5.1988, Lot 739.
- Acquired at the above sale, Swiss private collection.
Literature:
- Günther Roennefahrt: Carl Spitzweg. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis seiner Gemälde, Ölstudien und Aquarelle. Munich 1960, p. 206, no. 696 (with correct ill.)
- Siegfried Wichmann: Werkverzeichnistext, Starnberg, 26.3.1988, p. 1-6.
- Siegfried Wichmann: Carl Spitzweg. Verzeichnis der Werke. Gemälde und Aquarelle, Stuttgart 2002, p. 403, no. 962 (with incorrect colour ill.).
CHF 15 000 / 20 000 | (€ 15 460 / 20 620)
Sold for CHF 10 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.