Lot: 9407
Date of sale: 31. Sat Aug 2024
Holmead (i.e. Clifford Holmead Phillip
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Holmead (i.e. Clifford Holmead Phillips). 1889 Shippensburg – 1975 Brussels. Landscape (Night). 1959. oil on canvas, the entire surface laminated by the artist on card, signed Holmead lower right and monogrammed and dated HP 59 lower left, titled, signed, dated and inscribed L 59/920 on the reverse, 91 x 76.5 cm, in shadow gap frame 95.5 x 81.5 cm – Europe became a second home for the American-born painter Holmead. Bremen played a special role in this: after his death in Brussels in 1975, his wife Elisabeth brought him to her hometown of Bremen to have him buried in the Riensberg cemetery
