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Dean Cornwell
Peter Sees the Figure on the Shore
Lot Closed
March 17, 05:48 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dean Cornwell
1892 - 1960
Peter Sees the Figure on the Shore
signed Dean Cornwell (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 by 45 1/4 in.
86.4 by 114.9 cm.
Executed circa 1948.
Estate of the artist
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman, Boston, 1952, illustrated, pp. 200 & 201
Patricia Janis Broder, Dean Cornwell: Dean of Illustrators, New York, 1978, pp. 12 & 24
Louisville, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Paintings & Drawings by Dean Cornwell Mural Painter, Illustrator & National Academician from Kentucky, 1953, no. 26, n.p.
The present lot is being offered with a smaller oil study completed by the artist in preparations for the final composition. The study of the work measures 9 by 12 in. (22.9 by 30.5 cm.)