u/Big_Zinsi

Hey,

So i have another special case ^^

I originally bought this still life as an unsigned painting.

I bought it primarily because of that Chinese doll. Lovis Corinth, a famous German Impressionist, featured a doll like that in several of his still-life paintings.

However, Corinth’s doll was a different model in terms of color.

I don’t know of any other paintings featuring a doll like this, which makes the piece quite intriguing to me.

Those nodding-head pagodas were very expensive back then.

Upon closer inspection, however, the supposedly unsigned painting turned out to be signed after all. The signature is very finely incised.

Unfortunately, I cannot decipher it.

Would a more renowned artist even sign a work in such an inconspicuous, hidden manner?

Corinth, for instance, sometimes painted his signatures right in the middle of the picture.

The painting is also executed on an extremely coarse canvas; I would almost say it was jute.

I’ve had this painting for quite some time.

I always liked it, but I could never identify the monogram.

I recently took another look at it, and using Google Image Search, I was surprised to find many other versions of this same motif.

There was even a postcard listed on eBay featuring the exact same image.

So, there must be an original work that served as the model for the other paintings—like mine. Perhaps it is also a well-known location that attracted many other painters.

Anyone here who knows something about it?

Hello, I bought this painting on a wooden panel cheaply at a flea market.

Can anyone guess how old it might be and if there is anything special about it?

The old varnish is quite thick and darkens the whole painting.

The painting looks rather naive to me; it does not seem very skillful.

Hey guys,

Its my first post in this sub and i hope it fits in here.

So i bought this leaf on a spontanous trip to a fleamarket lately but im struggling to identify its origin and age....or if it might be a faksimile.

I like this kind of things but i never rly got into it.

I recognized the paper restauration in the lower left corner which tells me that it was damaged and once worth preserving.