LOT 632
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Lot 632
ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM (American 1857-1903)
Japanese Gardens
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right and verso with titled Newhouse Galleries exhibition label
39.25 inches x 22 inches
Estimate:
$75,000 - 100,000
€ 52,500 - 70,000
Provenance:
Newhouse Galleries St. Louis, Missouri (according to a label on verso) where presumably acquired by Missourian Mr. B. Ray Franklin or Mr. Robert Preston Bruner of St. Louis, the builder and consecutive owner (respectively) of the Osage Beach Hotel, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, where the painting has hung since before 1947 until recently when the hotel was purchased and the painting subsequently consigned to Jackson’s by the new owners of the hotel.
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