Lot 106
  • 106

William Louis Sonntag

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Louis Sonntag
  • Sunset on the Hudson
  • signed Wm Sonntag (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 50 inches
  • (76.2 by 127 cm)

Provenance

Richard Castellane Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1960

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is lined. Surface: In good condition aside from scattered, stable craquelure (mostly in lower half of canvas) and frame abrasion with a few associated losses. UNDER UV: Scattered dots and dashes of inpainting (predominantly in sky, lower left, and around edges) and an area of inpainting approximately the size of a thumb in upper center sky).
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