Lot 381
  • 381

Thomas Leo Blackwell

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Leo Blackwell
  • High Standard's Harley
  • signed, titled and dated '75 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 42 1/2 by 34 1/2 in.
  • 108 by 87.6 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, Switzerland
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Louis K. Meisel, Photorealism, Lucern, 1989, p. 98, no. 174

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There are scattered areas of fine and stable craquelure along the lower left and bottom edges of the canvas and in the lower left quadrant. There are four minute brown surface accretions in the white pigment in the seat of the bike. Framed under glass.
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