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KONRAD CRAMER (1888-1963)
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signed and dated 'Konrad Cramer./-1935- (lower right)—signed and dated again (on the print at upper center)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on board
32 x 24 in. (81.3 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1935.

Provenance

Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art/Megan Moynihan Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2000s.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, March 24-May 5, 1935.

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Lot Essay

In the upper right background of the present work, Konrad Cramer includes a glimpse of one of his acclaimed gas station subjects of the 1930s, one of which is in the collection of the Palmer Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.

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