Lot 422: Boy with Cello

Gretchen Wohlwill Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1962 , Boy with Cello, Oil/canvas, 95 x 74,5 cm, lo. le. sign. Wohlwill, min. rest., unframed., Painter a. graphic artist, studied at the Ladies painting school of Valeska Röver in Hamburg under E. Eitner a. A. Illies a. in Paris at the Académie Stettler, assistant in the studio of H. Matisse, co-founder of the Hamburg secession, emigrated to Portugal in 1940, returned to Hamburg in 1952, her impressionist style became influenced by P. Cézanne a. H. Matisse during her Paris sojourn, later she turned to New Objectivity a. the Hamburg secession style.

Bruhns/Rosenkranz 1989, no. 50, with ill no. 28.

Estate of the artist; private collection USA.