Paul Fischer (b. Copenhagen 1860, d. Gentofte 1934)
Street scene with women selling fruit and vegetables, Naples. Signed and dated Paul Fischer Vomero Napoli 1922. Oil on canvas. 58×75 cm.
Vomero is a district in Naples.
This depiction of public life was made during Fischer's second trip to Italy in 1922. As in his Copenhagen paintings, it is the colourful street life that has captured the painter's eye, and the market day on the streets of the Vomero neighbourhood does not differ much from the activities at Højbroplads and Gammel Strand in Copenhagen. Yet the often slightly dreary Copenhagen haze has here been replaced with a more enchanting Italian late summer sunshine.
Provenance: The estate of Paul Fischer, Winkel & Magnussen auction 156, 1934 no. 124.
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Paintings & drawings, 25 February 2020