Lot 1029 | Sea Surf in the Bay of Colares in Portugal

KUMMER, ROBERT
Dresden 1810 - 1889


Title: Sea Surf in the Bay of Colares in Portugal.
Technique: Oil on paper.
Mounting: Laid down on card.
Measurement: 30 x 47,5cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Verso:
On the card handwritten: "Zur Erinnerung / an / Robert Kummer" as well as stamped top on the paper Lugt 1596.

Provenance:
Artist's estate;
Auction Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 30.11.2016, lot 163;
Collection Prof. Dr. Thomas Olbricht, Essen.

Literature:
Cf. E. Nüdling: Carl Robert Kummer. Ein Dresdener Landschaftsmaler zwischen Romantik und Realismus, Petersberg 2008, no. 405, p. 293.

The washed pen and ink drawing from a private collection in Dresden shows the same view from Colares, Portugal, west of Sintra. The sheet bears the estate stamp at the bottom right, which is found on the paper on the back of our painting; dated 1859.
In that year, Kummer was in Lisbon for the wedding of the Saxon Prince George and the Portuguese princess Maria Anna and took trips along the coast. In the years that followed, he used the drawings and studies produced here as models for his landscape images, which, with their clear and unaffected rendering of landscape and mood, still appear very modern today.