Lot 91
"Studies of Moose", Richard Bernhard Louis Friese (Gumbinnen 1854 – 1918 Bad Zwischenahn), 1906
Works of Art, Antiquities & Ancient Art | A109kua | Live auction | 1190 Lots
Description
Watercolour and pencil on paper. Lower left inscribed in pencil "27.9.06 / Mok R. Friese"; lower right monogrammed "RF" and dated "27.9.06"; upper right a further, partially legible pencil inscription. Two open-air studies of two prime bull elk before a Nordic lake landscape: on the left, a grazing bull with palmate antlers in left-facing profile, before low deciduous shrubs; on the right, a standing bull in three-quarter rear view, head turned to the right, on an elevated ridge, before an expansive lake landscape with a belt of coniferous forest on the horizon and a sky rendered in grey tones. Light general yellowing of the paper support; isolated foxing. Sheet dimensions 13.6 × 20.3 cm, frame dimensions 29.8 × 36.5 cm. Richard Friese, Professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts and court hunting painter to Emperor Wilhelm II, is regarded as an outstanding representative of German hunting and animal painting of the late 19th and early 20th century, with a focus on elk and deer depictions in Nordic landscapes.Condition: I - II Questions about the lot?
