Lot 4
  • 4

Oscar Bluemner 1867-1938

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Oscar Bluemner
  • Sheepshead, Long Island and Stanhope, New Jersey: A Pair of Works on Paper
  • each signed with the artist's conjoined initials OB and dated 4-30 - 5 - 30 / Aug 3, 07 and July 13 - 15 respectively
  • the first watercolor on paper; the second charcoal on paper     (two works)
  • 6 by 10 in. 15.3 by 25.4 cm.
  • 4 1/2 by 5 3/4 in. 11.5 by 14 cm.

Provenance

James Graham and Sons, New York (the first)
Spanierman Gallery, New York (the second)

Exhibited

New York, James Graham and Sons, America on Paper:  Perspectives on People and Places by American Masters, 2000 (the first)
New York, James Graham and Sons, Modern Views:  American Landscape Painting form 1918-1940, 2002 (the first)
New York, James Graham and Sons, Oscar Bluemner:  Preparatory Drawings in Watercolor, Colored Pencil and Graphite, 2002 (the first)

Condition

both are in good condition, generally (neither was examined out of the frame--in both cases edges show clearly and are intact)
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