Gurschner (Herbert, 1901-1975). St Gimignano, circa 1925, watercolour on wove paper, an arresting account of the town's historical Tower Houses, signed lower right in blue ink, sheet size 225 x 290 mm (9 x 11 1/2 ins), '16 St Gimignano' in red ink to verso, remnants of old tape to verso, faint dust soiling to top of image, painted to extreme edges of sheet, with another study of St Gimignano, watercolour on wove paper, sheet size 290 x 225 mm (11 1/2 x 9 ins), '12' in black ink to lower left corner, also painted to extreme edges of sheet, small handling crease to lower right, together with two further landscape views of the Italian countryside, both watercolour on thick paper, each numbered to lower left in pen '11' and '28' respectively, both sheet sizes 225 x 290 mm (9 x 11 1/2 ins) (Quantity: 4) Provenance: Estate of the artist, thence by descent to the present owner. These two views of San Gimignano in Tuscany may have been preparatory studies for Gurschner's 1925 oil on canvas San Gimignano. That work sold at auction for €20,000 in 2018. Three similar views of San Gimignano (all executed in 1925) are listed in Claudia and Roland Widder, Herbert Gurschner Ein Tiroler in London (2000), plates 141, 142 and 144.
Gurschner (Herbert, 1901-1975). St Gimignano, circa 1925, watercolour on wove paper, an arresting account of the town's historical Tower Houses, signed lower right in blue ink, sheet size 225 x 290 mm (9 x 11 1/2 ins), '16 St Gimignano' in red ink to verso, remnants of old tape to verso, faint dust soiling to top of image, painted to extreme edges of sheet, with another study of St Gimignano, watercolour on wove paper, sheet size 290 x 225 mm (11 1/2 x 9 ins), '12' in black ink to lower left corner, also painted to extreme edges of sheet, small handling crease to lower right, together with two further landscape views of the Italian countryside, both watercolour on thick paper, each numbered to lower left in pen '11' and '28' respectively, both sheet sizes 225 x 290 mm (9 x 11 1/2 ins) (Quantity: 4) Provenance: Estate of the artist, thence by descent to the present owner. These two views of San Gimignano in Tuscany may have been preparatory studies for Gurschner's 1925 oil on canvas San Gimignano. That work sold at auction for €20,000 in 2018. Three similar views of San Gimignano (all executed in 1925) are listed in Claudia and Roland Widder, Herbert Gurschner Ein Tiroler in London (2000), plates 141, 142 and 144.
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