LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on reddish primed heavy card

Measurements:

11.10 in. (28.20 cm.) (height) by 8.19 in. (20.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed in brownish 'Egger Lienz' u.l.

Condition:

The card slightly compressed on the upper edge, especially on the upper and l.r. corners; small loss of color at lower margin to the right; Framed

Literature:

Heinrich Hammer, Albin Egger-Lienz, Innsbruck/Vienna/Munich 1930, catalogue raisonné p. 279, no. 2; Heinrich Hammer, Albin Egger-Lienz, Ein Buch für das deutsche Volk, Innsbruck 1938, cf. p. 82 with illus. (a different similar study of head on 'Bauern'); Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger Lienz 1868-1926, Das Gesamtwerk, vol. I, Vienna/Munich 1996, pp. 314 - 333

Provenance:

Formerly private possession, Innsbruck; Private possession, Switzerland