"Seascape" 1913 Franz Karl Herpel
 

Author - Franz Karl Herpel 1850 - 1933 gg. Artist seascapes studied at the Academy of Koenigsberg. With 1878goda regularly exhibited at all major Berlin exhibition. Painted on the instructions for
Sultan of Constantinople.
 
Oil on canvas
 
Size 80 cm to 130 cm
 
Established 1913 or 1918 - the last digit in the signature is not legible.
 
Good condition, native stretcher came to a complete disrepair, had to change to a new, in the process is not significantly restavaratsii original canvas was stretched to a new one.

Last 60 years, painting was in a Moscow apartment, was brought from Kaliningrad in 1947, colonel in the Soviet army. Sales of his son. Was made a minor restoration, the restorer who have served in the Tretyakov Gallery 30 years.

Price 7900 Euro

Price is not the final

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dnd75, that such a thing someone zaintereschovala, the price should be at least half.

If you do not tripled.

It is to sell. I wrote="interest".

Thanks for the advice, if I have explained what "this" picture, it became easier to make decisions b. .. And so for me the normal kartna, high-quality big, old, thinking some leads .. someone and 10t Euro inexpensive seem

dnd75, http://www.mehlis.eu/archiv/50-auktion/objekte/0015130
is the most expensive sale of the artist over the past 5 years.
Care 2800 euros, 95,7 x 158 cm
You need to make allowances for the size (you have to but smaller), the crisis and modest interest to the author.
Then you stop to chuckle over.

In your example, the signature on the painting - is questionable .. In this author's signature, such

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dnd75, you really at the same time would give, and a link to your source:
http://www.auktion-bergmann.de/ufIte...9&l=H&s_id=300

A link to the free (though not complete) data bank for signatures and monograms would be useful to many:
http://www.auktion-bergmann.de/Katal..._id=3&s_id=300

Maybe Admin will copy it to a more prominent place in the forum (I do not know how to do it)?