Lot 49
  • 49

George Inness

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • George Inness
  • Souvenir of Italy
  • signed G. Inness (lower left)
  • oil on panel laid down on masonite
  • 10 1/4 by 14 1/4 inches
  • (26 by 36.2 cm)

Provenance

Mrs. Solon W. Bush, Medfield, Massachusetts (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Mrs. Elliott Kellogg (acquired from the above, her sister)
Mrs. E.B. Kellogg, Brookline, Massachusetts (by descent from the above, her mother-in-law), until 1937
Mrs. Lucius D. Potter, Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1939-1944
R.C. Vose, Boston, 1944-1948
LeRoy Ireland, New York, 1948-1949
Dr. T.E. Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania, 1949
Reginald Lombar, Lakeview, New York, to 1968
Vose Galleries, Boston, 1968
William Young, Boston, 1968
Private Collection
Davis & Long, New York
Private Collection, Texas

Exhibited

Boston, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Third Annual Summer Exhibition of Early American Landscapes Featuring the Hudson River School, 1946, no. 65 

Literature

LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin, Texas, 1965, no. 598, p. 145, illustrated (listed as oil on panel)
Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, New Brunswick, 2007, p. 136, no. 113, illustrated

Condition

Condition Report from Simon Parkes, Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc., an independent conservator (9/23/2014): This work is on a panel with four reinforcements around the edges. The work is probably cleaned and varnished. No damage is apparent to the paint layer. There are only a few retouches on the bottom edge addressing some frame abrasion and possibly a few small dots in the darker colors. The condition is very good overall.
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