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Artist or Maker: Carl Hofer (1878-1955)

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Provenance: Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin/Dusseldorf.
Founders Society (William C. Yawkey Fund), Detroit.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (no. 33.17), a gift from the above in 1933.

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Exhibited: Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Karl Hofer, 1931, no. 25
New London, CT, Lyman Allyn Museum, 1932.
Detroit, Institute of Arts, Karl Hofer and Xaver Fuhr, 1939.
New York, Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1937, no. 23.

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Literature: M. Osborn, 'Karl Hofer's Wandlung', Vossische Zeitung, Berlin, 10 March 1931.
M. Breuning, 'Current exhibitions (Karl Hofer at the Schaeffer Galleries)', Parnassus, New York, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 35.
'Hofer Enters 4 American Museums', The Art Digest, vol. 11, 15 January 1937, p. 31.
P. Lesley, 'A Landscape by Carl Hofer', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, no. 6, March 1939, p. 6.
'Two painters show works', Detroit Free Press, 19 March 1939.
'Hofer Landscape Gift to Museum', The Detroit News, 19 March 1939.
'Hofer and Fuhr Paintings at Art Institute', Municipal Employee, Detroit, April 1939.
'Hofer's Popularity, Begun at Carnegie, Grows', The Art Digest, vol. 13, 1 May 1939, p. 15 (titled 'Still life').
E.P. Richardson, 20th Century Painting, Detroit, 1947, p. 42.
D. Orban, What is art all about?, Sidney, 1975, pp. 12 & 95 (illustrated pl. 10).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

This painting is registered in the Carl Hofer archive under no. 936 and is sold with a photo-certificate from Karl Bernhard Wohlert.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.