Fritz Mühsam, Blue Vase with Flowers Still Life, Early 20th Century, Oil Painting

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An original early 20th-century oil painting, Fritz Mühsam, Blue Vase with Flowers Still Life.A wonderful floral still life painting, likely … more An original early 20th-century oil painting, Fritz Mühsam, Blue Vase with Flowers Still Life.A wonderful floral still life painting, likely painted in the 1930s, by interesting modernist German artist Fritz Mühsam (1880–1946). Mühsam was born in Hamburg and later worked in Berlin and Paris, where he produced paintings with Cubist and Expressionist influences.The juxtaposition of colours, applied in pure, gestural dabs makes this painting part-figurative still life, part-study in colour and form. The background is painted in a block of flattened blue, a colour very close to that of the vase (and in fact forming the highlights of the vase), giving the overall composition a post-impressionist, decorative quality, redolent of Van Gogh's sunflowers where the yellow vase melds into yellow background.In oil paint on board.Inscribed on the verso 'Mrs Lionel Fraser', suggesting that the painting was previously owned by the wife of Lionel Fraser (1895–1965), the British banker and self-made millionaire, whose son was the influential London art dealer Robert Fraser. Signed: Signed lower left. Inscribed: Inscribed verso. Height: 45cm (17.7″) Width: 37.5cm (14.8″) Condition: There is some craquelure to the blue paint; in places the paint is applied thinly, so that the ground shows through, and the craquelure enhances the textural effect. Wear the the edges of the board, commensurate with age. Please see photos for detail. Presented: Unframed. less