Lotave, Carl - oil on canvas, good condition but has a

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Start price: $100

Estimated price: $2,000 - $7,500

Buyer's premium: 10%

This original Carl Lotave (1872-1924) oil on canvas depicts a lone family traveling with a covered wagon and was painted in 1902. The canvas measures 36×57 and is in good condition but has a patch measuring 11.5×7.25 seen from the back. It’s signed "Lotave 1902" in the lower right. Born in Jonkaping, Sweden in 1872, Lotave studied with the masters Zorn and Bergh in Stockholm, where Birger Sandzen was his fellow student. Later he studied in Paris and came to Colorado Springs from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas where he had been an instructor in painting for two years beginning in 1897. While in Colorado Springs, he painted a ceiling decoration for McRae’s Restaurant and mural decorations for the homes of J P Pomeroy and of Mr. Rathborn and executed several portraits with marked success in 1902-03. Lotave made the cover designs for the New Year’s edition of the Gazette (newspaper). In the Savoy Hotel, Denver, the art work of the Indian Room was Lotave’s creation and perhaps marked the high tide of achievement in his temperamental and eccentric career in the West, dividing honors with his Cliff Dwelling and Pueblo Indian frescoes in the Archaeological museums in Santa Fe.

Condition: good condition, but has a patch measuring 11.5×7.25 seen from the back

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