Hugo Weischet

Vanderkindere, from Brussels, sells on 13 September 2016 a "Hungarian School, Budapest (19)20, signed Weischer(?)" Women at the Well, a rather large (155 by 115cm) canvas estimated at 1,000 to 1,5000 Euro.

This is most likely a work by Hugo Weischet (1897-1976), a German painter who lived and worked in Budapest (and Hungary in general) from at least 1924 to 1930. I see the "2" after Budapest, but I don't recognise a "0" or any other number after it (if anything, I see a 4). The name reads "Weische" plus prebably one further letter, which could very well be a lower case "t".

The work is somewhat more classical than the few others by him I could find, but it still shows enough elements of his work to be an acceptable attribution. The two works I could find prices for were sold for 450 and 700 Euro, so below the estimate here, but both were considerable smaller works in tempera on cardboard or paper, not oils on canvas like here. (Images and info through Artvalue) Both feature a woman with a naked back, similar to the one seen here on the upper right, and they show that he didn't stick to a single style for his works.

I would estimate this one at 2,000 to 3,000 Euro.

UPDATE: sold for 900 Euro, even below the lowest estimate...