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Edward Theodore Compton
Gletscherplateau, 1906.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,800 Sold:
€ 60,000 / $ 66,000 (incl. surcharge)
Gletscherplateau. 1906.
Oil on canvas.
Bottom right signed and dated. 60.5 x 110 cm (23.8 x 43.3 in).
• Impressive large-format painting of the pristine mountains.
• Compton succeeds in capturing the fascinating atmosphere of the inhospitable landscape.
• An extremely harmonious work with the colors reduced to the silvery white, gray and blue tones of snow, rocks and clouds.
We are grateful to Mrs Sibylle Brandes, Tutzing, for her kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Private collection New York (acquired in the UK in the 1960s, ever since family-owned).
Oil on canvas.
Bottom right signed and dated. 60.5 x 110 cm (23.8 x 43.3 in).
• Impressive large-format painting of the pristine mountains.
• Compton succeeds in capturing the fascinating atmosphere of the inhospitable landscape.
• An extremely harmonious work with the colors reduced to the silvery white, gray and blue tones of snow, rocks and clouds.
We are grateful to Mrs Sibylle Brandes, Tutzing, for her kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Private collection New York (acquired in the UK in the 1960s, ever since family-owned).
72
Edward Theodore Compton
Gletscherplateau, 1906.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,800 Sold:
€ 60,000 / $ 66,000 (incl. surcharge)