Josef Wopfner - Ave Maria auf dem Chiemsee

auction 401, Lot 428

SUMMERAUCTIONS

on 23 June 2021

Josef Wopfner

Ave Maria auf dem Chiemsee

estimate:
€ 20.000 to € 25.000

Differenzbesteuerung    

result:
€ 26.670 (incl. 27 % buyer's premium)

description:

Josef Wopfner

1843 Schwaz am Inn - 1927 Munich

 

Hail Mary on the Chiemsee

 

 

Signed and inscribed with place name München lower left. Oil on panel. 14 x 18 cm. Restored. Framed.

 

Cf. Boetticher, Friedrich von, Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Volume II, 2. Leipzig 1941 (reprint), page 1038, number 13 and 21 (the two paintings mentioned above). - Holz, Irmgard / Rauch, Alexander, Josef Wopfner 1843-1927. Rosenheim 1989, page 204, catalogue raisonné 245 and 246 (with illustration), the latter with colour plate page 129: the two mentioned, compositionally comparable representations of the "Ave Maria".