Koester, Alexander (attr.)

Description:

Bergneustadt (Köln) 1864 - München 1932
67 x 55 cm
Ducks in the morning sun in lake reed. Oil/canvas, signed.
Stuttgart collection. Cf. Ruth Stein/Hans Koester, Alexander Koester 1864-1932, Leben und Werk, Recklinghausen 1988, catalogue raisonné no. 738 with fig. Provenance: Nagel Auktionen, Sale 375S (18.3.2000), Lot 652. According to the catalogue description at that time with an invoice by Galerie Herbert Cramer, Frankfurt on the Main, dated 1924, and an expert report by Ruth Stein indicating that the painting will be included to the addendum of the catalogue raisonné. Both not avaiable any more in the consignor's family.