November 20th - 22nd, 1999 Auction
Lot 4: 
attributed to Maurice Braun
(American 1877-1941)
"Mountainous Desert FootHills"
- sketch
oil on board,
5" x 7",
signed lower right "M. Braun"
Estimate.......$1,000-$2,000
Provenance: Private Collection Chicago, Illinois.
According to Martin E. Petersen, author of "Second Nature - Four Early San Diego Landscape Painters," Prestel - Verlag Publishing, 1991; "Braun was frequently, but not exclusively a studio painter. When he first began painting in California, he would often paint large canvases in the field. Usually, however, he would make a small oil sketch in situ. These sketches were essentially studies of light, form and texture, either on a panoramic scale or smaller details of rocks or trees."
