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Lot 26*

Nikola Masic
(Yugoslavian, 1852-1902)
Picking pumpkins

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27 September 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Nikola Masic (Yugoslavian, 1852-1902)

Picking pumpkins
signed, inscribed and dated 'NIKOLA MASIC/79- Munchen' (lower right)
oil on canvas
52 x 107cm (20 1/2 x 42 1/8in).

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Please note the work is oil on canvas laid down onto board, not as stated in the catalogue.
Provenance
Private collection, USA.

Nikola Mašić began his artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1872, but having become dissatisfied with the programme, he decided to continue his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In Alexander Wagner's Komponierenklasse he acquired the necessary knowledge to work on large-scale figurative compositions, influenced by the historical work of Wilhelm von Liendenschmidt.

In 1874, Mašić travelled to Italy and studied the ancient monuments in and around Rome which would help in his later figurative compositions. However, the sketches and studies he created at this time also show a fascination with the atmosphere and light of the south which was to be a hallmark of his later career. On his return to Croatia, he began to paint in the region of Posavina. In 1878, he attended the Paris World Fair and was influenced by the Japonisme of the painter Marià Fortuny i Marsal. The following year he took a studio in Munich but continued to travel around Europe attending various Fine Art fairs and events. Due to his deteriorating eyesight, he eventually returned to Zagreb in 1884, where he first worked as a drawing teacher at the School of Crafts; in 1894 he was appointed as director of the Strossmayer Gallery.

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Please note the work is oil on canvas laid down onto board, not as stated in the catalogue.

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