Lot 44: JEROME BLUM B. 1884

TREES NEAR THE SEA

measurements
34 by 40 in.

alternate measurements
86.4 by 101.6 cm.

signed Jerome Blum (lower left); titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

Condition Note: canvas unlined, slack, damages to tacking edges, scattered craquelure, moderate surface sooiling, stretcher bar marks, minor flaking and small puncture to lower right, under UV light no apparent inpainting

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PROVENANCE

The parents of the present owner (relatives of the artist), circa 1924
Thence by descent to the present owner

NOTE

Blum's work was strongly influenced by the Fauves and Paul Gauguin. Following in Gauguin's footsteps, Blum travelled to Tahiti. An exhibition of Blum's Tahitian paintings was held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922.