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Willem Grasdorp (Zwolle 1678 -1728 Amsterdam)

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:14,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR
Willem Grasdorp (Zwolle 1678 -1728 Amsterdam)
Willem Grasdorp (Zwolle 1678 -1728 Amsterdam) Still Life; roses, mallows, poppy, lilies, bell flowers, and other blooms on a stone plinth, park landscape w/ statue against an evening sky, oil on canvas, 67,5 x 56,5 cm, carved frame,(Wo).€ 14.000 - 18.000 US $ 13.860 - 17.820 Expert's Report: Dr. Sam Segal, 9.11.2001, compares this painting to compositions depicted in Gemar Koeltzsch,1994. vol.2, No.144/1, Walther Bernt,1969, vol.1, No.449 and Mitchell, 1973, plate.163. Literature: listed in Hofstede de Groot, catalogue of works of Rachel Ruysch, 1928, No.92, and in Grant,1954, No.92. Provenance: auction Frederik Muller, Amsterdam,29. June 1920, No.25 (sold to Baert de la Faille). Little is known about the life of Willem Grasdorp, a student of the Hamburg still life painter Ernst Stuven.