LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Size Notes:

frame: 86.5 x 73 cm

Description:

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Markings:

Ligated monogram and date upper left, ‘HTh 1886 im Januar’, Two labels of the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, with the inventory number ‘A III 385’ on the reverse

Condition:

Very good condition; Carved wooden frame; showing minor framing marks. The paint surface has been re-varnished. The inspection under UV light reveals major areas of retouching to the upper and lower part of the painting as well as tiny touch-ups to the woman�s face. There are two patches on the reverse. The frame has hardly any visible signs of use

Literature:

Michaela Gugeler/Andreas Strob, Hans Thoma: 1839-1924. Der verstörende Griff nach der Welt, Frankfurt, 2008, p. 9-10, p. 61-62, 142 (information on the provenance); Joseph August Beringer in: Hans Thoma: Aus 80 Lebensjahren – Ein Lebensbild aus Briefen und Tagebüchern, Leipzig 1929, p. 329; Henry Thode, Thome, Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart 1909, p. 12 (portrait of mother and sister); Fritz von Ostini, Thoma, Bielefeld/Leipzig 1923, p. 104

Provenance:

artist’s property; after his dead owned by the adopted daughter Ella Geißler-Thoma; during World War II evacuation to Silesia and looted art; in 1953, present of the Polish government to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin; restitution to the heirs in 1993; then sold to the current owner