Lot 346: Laurits Andersen Ring (Danish, 1854-1933)

Laurits Andersen Ring (Danish, 1854-1933)
Haystacks
signed and dated 'L.A. Ring/97' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30½ x 48 1/8 in. (77.5 x 122.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1997, lot 128, when acquired by the present owner (£4,940).

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
In their panoramic composition and low horizons, Laurits Andersen's Ring's expansive depictions of Denmark's coastline continue in a strikingly modern idiom the sweeping vistas of the artist's Golden Age predecessors, in particular artists such as Johan Thomas Lundbye. They are also characterised by an extraordinary clarity of light, which gives them an almost photographic quality, not dissimilar to the coastal landscapes of the American realist, Edward Hopper.