Wintersonne im Engadin. 1914.
Oil on canvas.
Cf. Paffrath 1914_4 and 1914_21 . Lower left signed, dated and inscribed "Ponte Campowasto". 122.5 x 201 cm (48.2 x 79.1 in).
- Rediscovery after almost 100 years.
- Characteristic high quality winter landscape by the Danish artist..
We are grateful to Mr. Hans Paffrath, Galerie Paffrath GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Berlin.
Private collection Northern Germany.
"Many of Mönsted's landscape pictures are so close to reality, while entirely doing without any severity, as if they could replace nature.
(Quote after: Iris Metje: Die Illusion von Wirklichkeit. Der Landschaftsmaler Peder Mø nsted (1859-1941), pp. 10-22, here p. 22, in: Peder Mø nsted. Zauber der Natur, catalog raisonné published by Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf 2013)