Karl Hofer (German, 1878-1955) Tesserete (Ticino) Initialed and dated 35 bottom right, oil on canvas. (25 3/8 x 31 1/4 in. (64.5 x 79.4cm)) Provenance Private Collection, San Francisco, California (acquired in the early 1930s).Private Collection, New York (by family descent). Exhibition "Modern Art," Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1939. Literature Galerie Rosenbach, ed., Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: ausgewählte Kunst aus zwei Jahrhunderten, Hanover, Germany: Galerie Rosenbach, 1983, cat. 25, p. 52, no.122 (provenance erroneously attributed to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY). Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Karl Hofer: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 2, Cologne: Van Ham Art Publications, 2007, no. 1178 (illus.). Please contact Adrianne Wolkenberg, Fine Art department, awolkenberg@freemansauction.com to request a condition report for this lot.