ID 1239213
Lot 27 | GUSTAV BAUERNFEIND (SULZ 1848-1904 JERUSALEM)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives at Sunrise
signed and inscribed 'G. Bauernfeind / Jerusalem' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 ¼ x 78 ¾ in. (130.2 x 200 cm.)
Painted circa 1902.
Provenance
The artist, and by descent to his wife,
Elsie Bertsch Bauernfeind, and by descent to her son,
Otto Bauernfeind, until at least November 1921.
(Probably) with Kunsthandlung Gustav Grundstedt, Hamburg, by 1926.
Private collection, Germany; Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1988, lot 17, when acquired by the following,
with Pyms Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner in 1988.
Literature
A. Carmel and H. Schmid, Der Orientmaler Gustav Bauernfeind: Leben und Werk, Stuttgart, 1990, pp. 128, 356 (no. 1) and 360-361, pl. 173.
P. S. Kühner, Gustav Bauernfeind - Gemälde und Aquarelle, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, pp. 233, 306, no. 68, pl. 25.
| Artist: | Gustav Bauernfeind (1848 - 1904) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Israel, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Gustav Bauernfeind (1848 - 1904) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Israel, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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