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HUBERT VON HERKOMER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
HUBERT VON HERKOMER
(1849-1914) British artist and film director best remembered for his painting Hard Times. Lot of two rare items, the first a small original painting from his sketchbook "A peasant of the Bavarian Alps" mounted to a small sheet, with notes beneath reading: "...sheet from my sketchbook...Personifies: Hard work for small pay. The roman Catholic church, in its most bigoted form, and Bavarian Beer (at least once a week). Hubert Herkomer Oct. 1895". Along with an 8vo. sheet of hand-written music for a composition entitled "While I sing my lullaby sonny", entirely penned on both sides in Herkomer's hand in purple ink and signed at bottom adding date 1875. Fine condition, two pieces.

Estimate: $400 - 600.

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