Lot 189: **IGNAZ-MARCEL GAUGENGIGL (GERMAN, 1855-1932)

**IGNAZ-MARCEL GAUGENGIGL (GERMAN, 1855-1932)
POLISHING ARMOUR
signed 'I.M.GAUGENGIGL' l.l, in an ornate frame marked on the reverse 'Prendergast 1909' u.c;
oil on canvas
58cm x 39; 23 3/4in x 15 1/4

Provenance
Adelson Galleries Inc., Boston, 30th April 1968
JWHA Inv. no.6237

Gaugengiglwas born in in Passau, Bavaria. He specialised in intimate genre scenes, studio interiors and portraits. He was the son of a professor of languages and trained in Munich at the Royal Academy.In 1878, after his studies in Italy and Paris, hewent to Boston where he died in 1932.