Lot 142: Small Ship Yard

Karl Hagedorn, Berlin 1889 - Manchester 1969 Small Ship Yard, Oil/canvas, 51 x 76,5 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Karl Hagedorn 54. - German-English painter who lived in England since 1905. H. studied at the Manchester school of Art a. at the Slade school of Fine Art in London as well as in Paris where he exhibited in the Salon d'automne. - Mus.: London (British Mus., V&A;), Manchester a. others. - Lit.: Vollmer, Harris/Worth u.a. 'K.H. - Manchester's first modernist' (1994) a. others.