Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Charles Burchfield
The Butterfly Tree
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Burchfield
1893 - 1967
The Butterfly Tree
signed with the monogram and dated 1960 (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
15 ½ by 19 ½ in.
39.4 by 49.5 cm.
Executed in 1960.
We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
Burchfield Family Collection
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Arthur and Holly Magill (acquired form the above in 1982)
Sotheby's New York, 30 November 2000, lot 70 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Arthur and Holly Magill (acquired form the above in 1982)
Sotheby's New York, 30 November 2000, lot 70 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 1206, p. 282
J. Benjamin Townsend, ed., Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place, Albany, New York, 1993, no. 70, p. 525
J. Benjamin Townsend, ed., Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place, Albany, New York, 1993, no. 70, p. 525