Blom, Gerhard - 1666 Helsingör - 1930 Birkenröd, "Lesende Frau", oil/painting card, seated woman in an interior with a newspaper, the sitter is the painter Gerda Ström, the painter's wife, née Rasmussen, (1886 Copenhagen), signed lower left, inscribed Gerhard Blom (Gerda Ström) on the reverse, minimal craquelure, restored, approx. 28x20cm, frame minimally bumped approx. 34x27cm. Blom studied in Copenhagen at the art academy and at the art school of Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917), he mainly worked as a landscape and theater painter. Literature: Vollmer 4, 378, Th.-B.

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