Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
[With] Martin Diamond Fine Arts Inc., New York.
Louis Stern Galleries, Beverly Hills, California.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, May 30, 1991.

Exhibited
Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, and elsewhere, Konrad Cramer: A Retrospective, November 21, 1981-January 24, 1982, p. 58, no. 21 (as Still Life with Stove).

The present work retains an inscription by the artist's son on the reverse, which dates the work as circa 1920.

Konrad Cramer was one of the founders and directors of the Woodstock, New York Art Association and the Woodstock School of Painting. His style was considered more radical compared to the other artists working at the Woodstock school, often aiming to adapt cubism to local landscape and still life subjects. His floral still lifes, especially those he painted in the early-1920s, are rendered in a structured, realist style with subtle Cubist intrusions. These earlier works, including the present work, often recall traditional European floral still lifes, but Cramer modernizes them by twisting his tables and vases out of perspective or by tilting or dissolving the planes around the central subject.

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Konrad Cramer(1888-1963)Still Life with Black Stove 24 x 21 1/8 in (61 x 53.7cm)

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