Bertha Wegmann (b. Soglio, Switzerland 1847, d. Copenhagen 1926)
Purchased by 'Den Hirschsprungske Samling' in December 2020.
Interior with a bunch of wild flowers, a palette, paint box and a cheroot, half smoken. Signed B. Wegmann. Oil on canvas. 86×101 cm.
At Bruun Rasmussen's auction 679, 2000 no. 285, a similar interior with a large bunch of wild flowers on a desk by a window overlooking a church in Tyrol was sold. This in Ambassador John Loeb's collection of Danish paintings.
Another interior with a bunch of flowers and painting equipment very similar to the present painting is also known that one entitled “Fra en kunstners kvistkammer”, (From an artist's attic room) dated 1882, that one exhibited at Bertha Wegmann's memorial exhibition 1926 no. 76.
Condition report on request. Please contact: fine-art@bruun-rasmussen.dk
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Paintings & drawings, 1 December 2020