Karl Heffner, Flood Time

Karl Heffner, Flood TimeThis beautiful early 20th century oil painting by German artist Karl Heffner (1849 1925) depicts a flooded river under a pensive sky. The turbulent British weather with its electrifying mood swings, rapid showers and unpredictability has often been the butt of numerous jokes by those sheltering in warmer abodes. Much like its inhabitants, the no nonsense climate bustles with eccentricity the damp chill of an October morning morphs into a radiant mid

probably original

You can almost feel the snow give way under boots

Across the span of his career

But ultimately

depicts a variety of disparate objects set upon a contrasting blue tablecloth

We love the atmosphere which has been created in part by a muted

this exquisite realist work skilfully captures an array of complex sunlit structures - some thatched

Overall size: 23½” x 28½” / 60cm x 73cm

Chasselat was a classically-minded Parisian who often looked back to the old masters for inspiration

Where others sought to whisper

it’s no surprise that Doris

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