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The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Flack

Sat, Oct 27, 2012 09:00AM EDT
Lot 278

Karl Munch (Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1799

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
Sold for
$22,515
Sold Price includes BP

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Karl Munch (Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1799-1831), exceptional watercolor and ink on paper presentation drawing for Elisabeta Huston in Schaefferstown, Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, with typical elaborate floral baskets, love birds, angels, wreaths, and floral swags surrounding a detailed interior scene of three women, one in the kitchen, one at a spinning wheel, and one next to a cast iron stove, and a child in a rocking chair, signed lower center Karl Munch 1799, 12 3/4" x 15 1/2". Pictured in Wendy Cooper and Lisa Minardi, Paint, Pattern and People, pg. 62. Exhibition: Winterthur, 2011. Provenance: Pook & Pook, Inc., June 1998, lot 225 from the Earnest family.

Condition

Period frame. Small patches to top right corner, bottom right corner and small strip to lower right edge. Center creases with separation.