$42,500
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
European Art & Old Master Paintings
Auction: February 18, 2020 12:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'P. Mônsted [sic] - 1906.' bottom left, oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 48 in. (80 x 121.9cm)
Provenance: Uno Langmann Ltd., Vancouver, Canada.
Acquired directly from the above in the late 1980s.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
NOTE:
Peder Mørk Mønsted was a major Danish landscape painter of his age, specializing in serene, luminous vistas painted en plein-air. Following studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1870s with Julius Exner and Niels Simonsen, Mønsted went on to work in the studio of the Skagen painter Peder Severin Krøyer, and later with William Adolphe Bouguereau. Mønsted travelled throughout his career, painting the landscapes of his native Denmark, along with numerous locales in Northern and Southern Europe, North Africa, and Greece, where he painted as a guest at the invitation of King George I of Greece.