Lot 35
  • 35

George Wesley Bellows 1882 - 1925

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • George Wesley Bellows
  • The Journey of Youth
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 52 in.
  • (50.8 by 132.1 cm)
  • Painted in 1922.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Emma S. Bellows (his wife)
Anne Bellows Kearney (her daughter)
Phillip Kearney (her son)
H.V. Allison & Co., New York

Exhibited

Macon, Georgia, Museum of Arts and Sciences, George Bellows: The Personal Side, March-May 1984, p. 53, illustrated

Literature

Lauris Mason, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, California, 1992, p. 220
Jane Myers and Linda Ayers, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924, Fort Worth, Texas, 1988, p. 113

Condition

Good condition, lined, some visible craquelure. Under UV: a few very minor spots of retouching, otherwise fine.
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