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Tue, Apr 23, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 168

Cornelius A. Bartels Winston Churchill Original

Estimate: $100 - $200

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Cornelius A. Bartels original painting announcing Winston Churchill's Resignation as Prime Minister at Buckingham Palace. Size: 15 1/4" x 12 1/4" Condition: Some discoloration to the board and the tape affects the image on the edges. Artist Bio: Born: Rotterdam, Netherlands 1890 Artist-in-Residence, Central College, Pella, Iowa. Since 1949. Studied: Academy of Art and School of Education of Art Teachers, Rotterdam; Academy of Art at Dusseldorf. Member: "Malkasten" (Paint Box), a famous German Association of Art. Represented in many private collections in Berlin, Munster, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Brussels and Czechoslovakia. Exhibitions in U.S.: 20th Annual Graphic Arts Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; One-man shows at Younkers, Des Moines; and at Newton and Sioux City Art Centers; Tall Corn Hotel, Marshalltown; Iowa Traveling Watercolor Show; Dayton's Store, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Commissions: Many displays for the German Industrial Exhibit, 1935-39; Art Director of the Centennial Festival and Banquet of Colonia, Germany's largest insurance company, 1939; Stage settings for Pella Tulip Festival operettas, 1949-1951.

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