JANUARY FINE ESTATES CHARLESTON SC
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Marie Tannaes Nowegian Landscape Oil on Canvas c. 1900. Signed lower right. In magnificent gilt wood period frame. In frame measures 27.25"x22"x2". Weight 10 lbs. Marie Katharine Helene Tanaes (1854-1939) was a Norwegian painter known for her landscape paintings. Tanaes was born 19 March 1854 in Oslo. She studied with Carl Schoyen, Christian Wexelsen, Christian Krohg, Hans Heyerdahl, Erik Werenskiold, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. She attend the Academie Colarossi in Paris from 1888 through 1889. Tanaes exhibited frequently at the Hostutstillingen. She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Tann?s received an honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and a Silver Medal at the Panama?Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Tann?s died 20 February 1939 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Condition: good, small loss to frame corner
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