Lot 119
  • 119

Harry Watrous 1857-1940

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Harry Watrous
  • The Dregs
  • signed © Watrous, l.r.; signed copyrighted by H.W. Watrous and dated 1914 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 by 39 in.
  • 73.7 by 99.1 cm.

Provenance

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
(Sale:  Sotheby's, New York, May 30, 1985, lot 216)
(Sale:  Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 215)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, Winter Exhibition, 1915, 1915-1916, no. 257

Literature

Bachelor, "What's Going On", Harper's Bazaar, February, 1916, p. 35, illustrated

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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Catalogue Note

The work is presented in an Albert Milch carved and gilt wood art deco  frame.  Aside from being one of New York's pre-eminent framemakers, Albert Milch and his brother  Edward were the co-founders of the well-known Milch Gallery.