Auction 288: Old Masters & 19th Century Art | 10 May 2019
Wilhelm Busch

Bitter Medicine

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Auction 288
Lot 52
Wilhelm Busch
1832 Wiedensahl – Mechtshausen 1908
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Oil on cardboard. (1891). 18.8 x 14.3 cm. Signed with the artist’s monogramm and inscribed upper right: “W. B. / Frei n. Brouwer”.

Result: € 5,375*

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Details

Gmelin 97.

Literatur:
Karl Wiechert: Diogenes Cynicus. Drei “Versüchelchen” nach Brouwer, in: Jahrbuch der Wilhelm Busch Gesellschaft 1967, S. 21, Abb. S. 25.

Provenienz:
Johanna Kessler (1891);
Hugo Kessler; Dr. Ernst Lüdeken, Hannover;
Herbert Nelius, Hannover (1979/80);
Privatbesitz, Westfalen.

Period

19th century

Technique

Oil/Acrylic

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