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Thorvald Niss (b. Assens 1842, d. Frederiksberg 1905)

The ruins of Cap Sounion in Greece. Signed with monogram. Oil on canvas. 175×110 cm.

Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 763, 2006, no. ​2069.

Thorvald Niss visited Italy and Greece in 1885–86 and again in 1892.

Cape Sounion is the headland at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, 8 kilometers south of the city of Lavrio and 69.5 km southeast of Athens in the Athenian Riviera.

Additional Remarks

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Auction

Paintings and drawings, 6 December 2023

Category
Estimate

30,000–40,000 DKK

Sold

Price realised

22,000 DKK