Lot 98: HANS WEINGAERTNER 1896-1970

FAMILY OUTING

measurements
40 by 50 in.

alternate measurements
101.6 by 127 cm.

signed HS WEINGAERTNER, and dated 1961, l.r.

oil on canvas

Condition Note: generally good condition, canvas unlined, slightly rippled on left side, scattered minor craquelure, generally in sky, under UV light a few scattered touches of inpainting in sky, inpainted scratch to woman's forearm, small patch of inpainting under willow tree to right

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PROVENANCE

Dr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Gehl

EXHIBITED

New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Hans Weingaertner, a Retrospective, January 31-April 4, 1993, #48, illustrated in color

NOTE

This work depicts the artist, his wife and son in Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey, with the Newark Cathedral in the background. (Elaine Evans Dee, Hans Weingaertner, A Retrospective, Montclair, 1993, p. 11)