Lot 76
  • 76

Marvin Cone

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Marvin Cone
  • Paris Park
  • signed Marvin D. Cone (lower right); signed Marvin D. Cone, titled "Paris Park" and dated 1929 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvasboard
  • 13 by 14 7/8 inches
  • (33 by 37.8 cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, North Carolina (as a wedding gift from the artist, 1942)
By descent from the above to the present owner

Exhibited

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Little Gallery, American Federation of Arts, Paintings by Marvin Cone, November 25 - December 7, 1929, no. 25
Iowa City, State University of Iowa, Exhibition of Paintings by Marvin D. Cone, December 1929

Literature

Joseph S. Czestochowski, Marvin D. Cone: Art as Self-Portrait, Cedar Rapids, 1989, no. 203, p. 183

Condition

Oil on canvasboard. Surface in generally good condition, a few small spots of grime, discoloration under frame edges. Under ultraviolet light: no apparent signs of inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

Paris Park directly relates to Cone's oil paintings Luxembourg Gardens of 1929 and Paris Promenade of 1929 - 1930.