Lot 43
  • 43

George Wesley Bellows 1882 - 1925

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • George Wesley Bellows
  • Uncle Charles
  • signed Bellows on the reverse 
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 by 18 inches
  • (55.9 by 45.7 cm)
  • Painted in 1907.

Provenance

Estate of Emma S. Bellows (the artist's wife), 1959
H.V. Allison & Co., New York
Private Collection, Orlando, Florida, 1988 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 18, 2005, lot 55, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, H.V. Allison & Co., Paintings from the Estate of George Bellows (1825-1925), May-June 1987, no. 2, illustrated p. 5

Condition

This work is in good condition. The canvas is wax-lined. There is a stretcher bar mark at the top edge. Under UV: there is an opaque varnish and two areas of inapainting at the center right edge and lower right corner. There are a few other scattered dots of inpainting in the background.
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