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    Sale 9621

    Travel and Natural History including Maps and Atlases

    London, South Kensington

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    8 May 2003

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    • Ferdinand Bellermann (1814-188
    Lot 234

    Ferdinand Bellermann (1814-1889)

    Sunset in the Orinoco delta

    Price realised

    GBP 3,055

    Estimate

    GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

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    Ferdinand Bellermann (1814-1889)
    Sunset in the Orinoco delta
    oil on board
    6¾ x 10½in. (17.1 x 26.7cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    The study relates to the large canvas 43 x 73¼in. (109.2 x 186.7cm.) signed and dated 1869, for which see Christie's (South Kensington), 28 May 1987, lot 21. The latter may have been Bellermann's large canvas exhibited at the Berlin Academy in 1881 (Abends im Delta des Orinoco).

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