May 11, 2022 12:00 EST
Modern and Contemporary Art
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Karl Hofer (German, 1878-1955)
Tesserete (Ticino)
Initialed and dated 35 bottom right, oil on canvas.
25 3/8 x 31 1/4 in. (64.5 x 79.4cm)
Provenance
Private Collection, San Francisco, California (acquired in the early 1930s).
Private Collection, New York (by family descent).
Sold for $35,280
Estimated at $30,000 - $50,000
Initialed and dated 35 bottom right, oil on canvas.
Provenance
Private Collection, San Francisco, California (acquired in the early 1930s).
Private Collection, New York (by family descent).
Exhibition
"Modern Art," Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1939.
Literature
Galerie Rosenbach, ed., Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: ausgewählte Kunst aus zwei Jahrhunderten, Hanover, Germany: Galerie Rosenbach, 1983, cat. 25, p. 52, no.122 (provenance erroneously attributed to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY).
Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Karl Hofer: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 2, Cologne: Van Ham Art Publications, 2007, no. 1178 (illus.).
