Osteria in Rapallo. 1927.
Oil on canvas.
Bechter 1927/10. Signed and dated in lower right. 75 x 59.5 cm (29.5 x 23.4 in).
With a label on the frame, hand-inscribed with, among others, the title, the artist's name and "für Braunschweig, Bremerhaven, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven". [CH].

PROVENANCE: Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen, Grafenau.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from aforementioned in 1986).

EXHIBITION: Aus den Beständen der Galerie, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen, Grafenau, cat. 40, autumn 1985, cat. no., 50 (with illu.).
Leo von König, Jubiläumsausstellung in der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1931, cat. no. 21.

LITERATURE: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 605th auction, Modern Art, December 7, 1984, lot 629.

In very fine condition. With a small, skillfully exeuted retouched spot in lower right. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.