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Premier Auction - Session I - July 14, 2023

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 09:00AM EDT
  • Collections of the Darsie-Thomson Families, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lot 512

Franz Wagner

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(Austrian, active 1894-1908)

Young Woman wearing Elizabethan costume and holding a standing cup, signed lower left "F. Wagner", oil on canvas, 24-1/2 x 19-3/4 in.; original German gilt wood and composition frame, 33-1/2 x 29-1/8 in.

 

 

Condition

original stretcher and tacking edge, crackle, cupping, small points of retouch, canvas slightly slack, surface dirt; frame with wear and small losses commensurate with age

Property from the Thomson House, 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, built by Thomas Chalmers Darsie; by descent to Anne Darsie Thomson then to Robert Thomson; Gifted 2014 to Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania