"Ernst Stern, The Beggar"
Ernst STERN (Bucharest, 1876 – London, 1954)The Beggar
Oil on cardboard (1915)
Monogrammed and dated lower right E. St. 15
31.5 x 39 cm
Original frame in black and gilded lacquered wood (German inscriptions on the back of the panel and the frame Frau (?) Halder / Zollikerstrasse)
Dimensions with frame: 53 x 62 cm
Note: according to an internet search, a Villa Halder did indeed exist in the 1920s on Zollikerstrasse in Zurich. A burglary of the villa followed by a crime allegedly took place in May 1922 according to a press article of the time (in the newspaper La Gruyère).
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