Description:

Bovin, Karl Christian (1907 - 1985) Denmark: landscape. Tappernøje near Sparresholm. Watercolor/pastel on paper. Signed on the back. 13 x 23 cm.
Framed: 25 x 35.5 cm.
This work is nothing less than a Danish art historical treasure. In 1965, Karl Bovin had brought this winter landscape with him to Bahrain, where he participated in PV Glob's excavations in Qala'at al Bahrain. The work was given to the young history and archaeology student Else Rosdahl on her birthday on February 26, 1965, when she participated in the excavations. The other participants in the expedition had joined together to buy the work from Bovin and give it as a gift.
Verso text: To Else - Qala'at al Bahrain 26 II 65 - and all the donors' handwritten signatures: Kalle Bovin (pinxit), PV Glob, Geoffrey Bibby (co-leader of the expeditions to the Gulf. Originally an English archaeologist, living in Aarhus), Malene (then Malene Møller Jensen - now Malene Ravn, architecture student and excavator), Karen Kat (Karen Frifeldt, archaeologist and one of the expeditions' seasoned participants. Was sometimes called Karen Kat), Lilliana (married to Bue, "housewife" for the expedition, Peter Crabb (archaeologist), Henning Nielsen (archaeologist - possibly student) and Bue (married to Lillian, full name Svend Bue Madsen, amateur archaeologist from North Zealand, part of the expedition).
Item number: 29207