Hans Thoma

Nereid at Sunrise

1897, algraphy on paper

proof impression

 

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau im Schwarzwald - 1924 Karlsruhe)


"Meereserwachen: Nereide bei Sonnenaufgang" ["Sea Awakening: Nereid at Sunrise"]


1897


color algraphy (aluminograph) on vellum paper

proof impression

image 36,6 x 44,6 cm; sheet 47,1 x 57 cm


monogrammed and dated "HTH 1897" in the plate at bottom left;
inscribed "Algraphie" in the plate at bottom left;
signed "Hans Thoma" in blue pen at bottom left within the image; 
inscribed "Druckprobe" [proof impression] in pencil in the white margin at the bottom left;
signed again "Hans Thoma" in pencil in the margin at the bottom right.


The Daulton Collection


Magnificent proof of the very rare sheet with the full margin.


catalogue raisonné: Beringer 91



Condition:


Minimal light-staining in the passepartout cutout; a little dusty and stained in the white margin; horizontal crease in the white lower margin; isolated signs of age and wear in the outermost margins; otherwise still very well preserved.



Provenance:


The artist's estate (Aus dem Nachlass des Künstlers).


H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt a. M.


Private collection Hesse.



Publication History:


H.W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Hans Thoma, Experimente in Druck und Farbe (Frankfurt a.M., 2019), Cat. No. 1


From the artist's estate.
H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt a. M.
Private collection Hesse.
From the artist's estate.
H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt a. M.
Private collection Hesse.

The Daulton Collection owns another impression of this print:

Hans Thoma (1839-1924)


"Meereserwachen: Nereide bei Sonnenaufgang" ["Sea Awakening: Nereid at Sunrise"]


1897


color algraphy (aluminograph) on thick paper

36,3 x 44,6 cm (image)


signed in ink lower left in the image: "Hans Thoma"

monogrammed, dated, and inscribed in the plate lower left: "HT 1897 Algraphie"


an impression from the published edition


The Daulton Collection


catalogue raisonné: Beringer 91

Contact:
Jack Daulton
The Daulton Collection
thedaultoncollection@outlook.com