LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pencil and watercolor on paper laid on paper

Size Notes:

sheet

Markings:

Signed and dated Klünder 40 V

Condition:

The paper has turned slightly brown. Some foxing.

Provenance:

Wilhelmine (“Minna”) Kiær, née Berg (1872–1947) and her husband, the Danish architect and chamberlain Frederik Kiær (1856–1930). They married around 1890, lived in St. Petersburg where they har five children, and Frederik Kiær worked the construction of the Russian railways. During the Russian revolution in 1917 Wilhelmine and their children left for Denmark, while Frederik stayed in Russia for a couple more years. Hence Wilhelmine Kiær's two great-grandchildren until today