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Gilbert Munger (1837-1903) Barbizon Trees in Winter 19 x 23 3/4in framed 26 1/4 x 31in image 1
Gilbert Munger (1837-1903) Barbizon Trees in Winter 19 x 23 3/4in framed 26 1/4 x 31in image 2
Lot 90

Gilbert Munger
(1837-1903)
Barbizon Trees in Winter 19 x 23 3/4in framed 26 1/4 x 31in

20 April 2021, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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Gilbert Munger (1837-1903)

Barbizon Trees in Winter
signed 'Gilbert Munger' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19 x 23 3/4in
framed 26 1/4 x 31in

Footnotes

Provenance
Antique dealer, Virginia.
Private collection, Northern California.

This painting is listed as #308 in the Gilbert Munger online catalogue raisonné at https://gilbertmunger.org.

In Barbizon Trees in Winter, Gilbert Munger has a created a strikingly modern interpretation of a classic subject. Munger gives the trees a stoic monumentality. He emphasizes the sparse foliage by using contrasting dark pigments and bold brushstrokes in the trunks and branches. The background and sky are muted as well making the trees the sole focus. Munger painted these trees on at least two other occasions. In Barbizon Landscape, 1888, Munger depicts the same two trees covered with dense foliage (catalogue #34). In Two Trees, 1901, Munger depicts these trees in summer, in a larger vertical format (catalogue #17, in the collection of the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth).

A signed copy of Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction by Michael D. Schroeder and J. Gray Sweeney, 2003 accompanies the lot.

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