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1082 - Alexander Koester
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Alexander Koester Five ducks by the pond (ducks drinking) Oil on canvas. 71.5 x 100 cm. Signed lower right: A KOESTER. Provenance Private collection, Germany. Literature R. Stein / H. Koester: Alexander Koester 1864-1932. Leben und Werk. Recklinghausen 1988, no. 624, ill. From 1896 to 1915, Alexander Koester lived and worked in Klausen in South Tirol. These years are regarded as his most creative period, during which he developed, amongst other subjects, his famous duck paintings. This work is no exception; according to the catalogue raisonné (no. 624), it is dated to the period up to around 1905.
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