Gletscherplateau. 1909.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. Various handwritten numbers and inscriptions verso on the stretcher, and with a label. 112 x 192 cm (44 x 75.5 in).


• Spectacular glacier panorama with an atmospheric appeal.
• Picturesque and highly varied execution in nuanced colors, loose brushstrokes and fine glazes.
• Compton, the enthusiastic mountaineer of the early days of alpinism, is considered the leading mountain painter.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 1983, family-owned ever since).

LITERATURE: Jürgen and Sibylle Brandes, Edward Theodore Compton. Maler und Bergsteiger, Munich 2007, p. 312 (with deviating dimensions).
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Sotheby's, London, auction on March 25, 1981, lot 243 (illustrated).