(1869-1944)
Oil on heavy paper mounted on panel.
Original frame.
Signed and dated G.Stoskopf 1930 upper left.
Signed, titled, and dated on the back:
Gustave Stoskopf. – Avenue de la Paix 30 – Strasbourg.
Paysan Alsacien x 2.
Robinot Frères label, 1931 Salon.
Label from the 1931 Salon.
Three stamps from the 1931 Salon.
1930.
Work – Height : 87 cm / 34.2 inches – Width : 70,5 cm / 27.7 inches.
Frame : Height : 101,5 cm / 40 inches – Width : 85,5 cm / 33.7 inches – Thickness : 6 cm / 2.4 inches.
Origin
Beaussant Lefèvre auction – Drouot – Room 9 – June 3, 2022 – Lot 24 – Paris – France.
World record for the artist.
Exhibition
« Exposition des Artistes Français, Salon de 1931, exposition annuelle des Beaux-Arts »
Palais des Champs-Elysées – Paris – France 1931.
From April 30, 1931 – number 2072.
Bibliography
Exhition catalog –
« Exposition des Artistes Français, Salon de 1931, exposition annuelle des Beaux-Arts »
Printing Georges Lang – Paris 1931.
Painting reproduced page 50.
Periodical – « Haagsche Post » – number 1002 – December 25, 1932 – The Hague – Netherlands.
Painting reproduced on the front cover.
*Charles Gustave Stoskopf – « Gustave Stoskopf, Le Peintre – 1869 – 1944 »
Editions Alsatia – Colmar 1976.
For similar paintings of Alsatian farmers.
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