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* 1593 Vic-sur-Seille
† 1652 Lunéville

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Georges de la Tour
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The French painter Georges de la Tour was born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille in Lorraine. He was the son of the master baker Jean de la Tour and Sibylle Mélian. In 1618 in the village of Lunéville, Georges married Diane Le Nerf, the daughter of a finance minister of the Duke of Lorraine. Duke Henry II of Lorraine, who also resided in Lunéville, bought La Tour's "St. Peter" in 1623. The painter was documented as the official painter of Louis XIII ("peintre ordinaire du Roy") in 1639. Georges de la Tour and his works were rediscovered only in the 20th century. The artist and his wife died during an epidemic in Lunéville in 1652.

Record hammer prices at Ketterer Kunst

Auction 550 - Lot 38
Alexej von Jawlensky
Spanische Tänzerin, 1909
Sold: € 8,338,000 / $ 8,754,900

Auction 550 - Lot 19
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Tanz im Varieté, 1911
Sold: € 6,958,000 / $ 7,305,900

Auction 540 - Lot 33
Alexej von Jawlensky
Mädchen mit Zopf, 1910
Sold: € 6,383,000 / $ 6,702,150

Auction 535 - Lot 10
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Das blaue Mädchen in..., 1910
Sold: € 4,750,000 / $ 4,987,500

Auction 535 - Lot 6
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Hockende, 1910
Sold: € 4,290,000 / $ 4,504,500

Auction 535 - Lot 4
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Lesende (Else..., 1912
Sold: € 4,060,000 / $ 4,263,000

Auction 545 - Lot 43
Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau, 1908
Sold: € 3,920,000 / $ 4,116,000

Auction 560 - Lot 23
Max Beckmann
Großer mit Frauen und..., 1950
Sold: € 3,678,000 / $ 3,861,900

Auction 525 - Lot 243
Albert Oehlen
Ohne Titel (Triptychon), 1988
Sold: € 3,600,000 / $ 3,780,000

Auction 386 - Lot 25
Hermann Max Pechstein
Weib mit Inder auf..., 1910
Sold: € 3,480,000 / $ 3,654,000

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