Lot number 233 - Auction
'DER HÜTER DER TÄLER' (1898)

HANS THOMA 1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE VALLEYS' (1898) Color lithograph on paper. Visual size 60.5 x 44 cm, print size 46.5 x 34 cm (f. 67 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm). Hand-signed 'Hans Thoma' (faded) lower right. Inscribed 'HTH (ligated) 1898' in the stone at the bottom left. Verso label of the Kunsthaus Goyert, Cologne, with artist inscription and work title as well as Luchtenberg collection inventory number 'D/n 42'. Tanned, wavy, part. blotchy. Framed behind glass (unopened). Provenance: Luchtenberg Foundation.