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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;architrave, post: 214467, member: 3723&quot;]I don&#039;t think this could be by Henry Goering.</p><p><br /></p><p>Herta Czoernig is well documented, and there&#039;s an etching from this series of composers&#039; houses attributed to her in the online catalogue of the&nbsp; Beethoven Haus Museum in Bonn (estate signed, to confuse things a little).</p><p><a href="http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=&amp;template=dokseite_digitales_archiv_de&amp;_dokid=bi:i3969&amp;_seite=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=&amp;template=dokseite_digitales_archiv_de&amp;_dokid=bi:i3969&amp;_seite=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=&amp;template=dokseite_digitales_archiv_de&amp;_dokid=bi:i3969&amp;_seite=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And another in the Niederösterreichische Landesbibliothek:</p><p><a href="http://www.kulturpool.at/plugins/kulturpool/showitem.action?itemId=42949894246&amp;kupoContext=default" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kulturpool.at/plugins/kulturpool/showitem.action?itemId=42949894246&amp;kupoContext=default" rel="nofollow">http://www.kulturpool.at/plugins/kulturpool/showitem.action?itemId=42949894246&amp;kupoContext=default</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can see an unimpeachable signature (albeit in pen) on this poster advertising an exhibition of her work:</p><p><a href="http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Preview/16019531.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Preview/16019531.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Preview/16019531.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think these are better sources than an auctioneer. Furthermore, as Henry Goering spent the last 30+ years of his life in the United States, it seems unlikely that his etchings would be estate signed in German.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from a dealer, but as it&#039;s the same one who held her exhibition in 1959, they should know:</p><p><a href="http://www.nebehay.com/artikel/img/czoernig-gobanz-herta-1886-1970-1510-12.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nebehay.com/artikel/img/czoernig-gobanz-herta-1886-1970-1510-12.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.nebehay.com/artikel/img/czoernig-gobanz-herta-1886-1970-1510-12.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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