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Lot 131 Dα

Hubert Salentin - The Singing Lesson

Auction 1027 - overview Cologne
26.03.2014, 14:30 - Paintings and Drawings 15th to 19th C.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 7.686 € (incl. premium)

Hubert Salentin

The Singing Lesson

Oil on canvas (relined). 91 x 75 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: H. Salentin. Düsseldorf 1870.

This painting, which is only illustrated in the Mayme Neher catalogue raisonné as a black and white image trimmed on three sides, presents a significant enrichment of Salentin's oeuvre. In the artist's own, as yet unpublished, catalogue of works (archive of the Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf) the painting is numbered 112.

Provenance

Weddingen collection, Barmen. - Private collection, Lower Rhine Region.

Literature

Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1901, d. 2, p. 515, nr. 28. - Mayme Neher: Hubert Salentin. Der Poet in der Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Meisterschüler von Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Zülpich und Köln 2008, p. 250, nr. 167 (illus., further illuss. p. 172).