An Early 20thC German School Oil on Canvas Painting of a Gentleman Dated to 1927 reserved During the eighteenth-century

During the eighteenth-century

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An Early 20thC German School Oil on Canvas Painting of a Gentleman Dated to 1927 reserved During the eighteenth-centuryOrigin: German Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1927 Height: 35. 5 Width: 29 The half length portrait of a middle aged German gentleman in contemplative mood and sensitively executed, the sitter shown as a studious man of thought, his head resting to his hand sitting in an armchair to a dark ground with red tones, the work presented unframed and indistinctly signed and dated to 1927 lower right. The picture remains in original though