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Lot 2164 Dα

Guido von Maffei - A Badger fighting Three Dogs

Auction 1175 - overview Cologne
05.06.2021, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th to 19th C.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.000 € (incl. premium)

Guido von Maffei

A Badger fighting Three Dogs

Oil on canvas. 167 x 122 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: G. v. Maffei 1882.

Guido von Maffei first studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich before beginning his studies of painting at the “antique class” of the Munich Art Academy in 1865. His teachers there included Karl Theodor von Piloty and Otto Gebler, by whom we also offer a work in this auction. Von Maffei devoted himself almost exclusively to the depiction of wild animals, preferably in dynamic fight scenes such as the present large-format work.

Provenance

German private ownership (acquired in 1955 from Kunsthandlung am Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt am Main).