Lot 53: „Alter Mann mit Kind"

Karl Hofer
„Alter Mann mit Kind"
Monogrammed upper right (joined): CH. Titled in crayon and by another hand dated in pencil on the stretcher: Alter Mann & Kind 1924. There, too, a label of the Flechtheim galleries, Berlin-Düsseldorf
Oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 34 1/4 in.

c.1924

Craquelure

Internationale Kunstausstellung. Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1925, cat. no. 211

Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub: Karl Hofer. Zum fünfzigsten Geburtstage des Malers. Illustrierte Zeitung (Leipzig), vol. 171, no. 4360, 4 Oct. 1928, p. 502-503, here ill. p. 503 / 14. Kunstauktion: 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 2 June 1990, cat. no. 374, colour ill.

Flechtheim galleries, Berlin-Düsseldorf (circa 1925) / Private collection, Southern Germany (no later than 1987) / Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired in 1990)