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LUDWIG BEMELMANS Austrian Landscape with a Country House.
Watercolor and gouache. 560x775 mm; 22x30 1/2 inches. Signed in gouache, lower right recto. Ex-collection Hammer Galleries, New York; and Ollendorf Fine Arts, New York and San Francisco, with the labels on the frame back.
Born in Austria, Bemelmans (1898-1962) emigrated to the US in 1914 and became a citizen four years later. He worked as an illustrator for various New York-based magazines and is perhaps best remembered for his Madeline series of children's books which he began in 1939.
