Bidspirit auction | AMERICAN ERNEST FIENE STILL LIFE

AMERICAN ERNEST FIENE STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING - An original 1922 oil on canvas still life by German-American artist Ernest Fiene (1894–1965). The Post-Impressionist composition features a dark tabletop arrangement displaying three lemons, a tall green glass wine bottle with a red seal, and a reticulated blue and white porcelain bowl filled with grapes and pears against a soft lavender backdrop. Signed and dated ”E. Fiene 22.” in oil at the lower left. The verso of the canvas retains an unfinished expressive landscape study rendered in blue and green paint outlines. The stretcher retains printed inventory and barcode labels. Housed in a molded cream and gilt wooden frame. artwork, modernist, paintings, Cezanne, fineart, 1920s, collectibles, studio. Dimensions Frame: 26 x 30 in. Image: 20 x 24 1/4 in. Condition Stable paint surface overall with light, age-appropriate craquelure. Canvas remains tautly mounted to its original wooden stretcher. Frame exhibits light handling wear, edge scuffing, and paint splatters along the reverse wooden construction. Verso displays an unvarnished canvas back with an early painted sketch and intact paper inventory labels.