Lot 181
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Lowell Nesbitt

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Lowell Nesbitt
  • Anemone XXII
  • signed, titled and dated '77 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 36 in. 127 by 91.5 cm.

Provenance

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
Private Collection, USA
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, February 27, 1980, lot 132
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman

Exhibited

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Lowell Nesbitt Flowers, 1964-1979: Paintings & Sculpture, 1979, cat. no. 33, n.p., illustrated
West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery & School of Art, May - September 1990 (Extended Loan)

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is light wear at the extreme turning edges and corners of the canvas. There is hairline craquelure in the top center and right quadrants of the canvas. The canvas is slightly slack on the stretcher, most noticeable along the left edge. There is hairline craquelure due to a local impact at the top center of the canvas. There are two very minor surface accretions in the bottom left quadrant. Under Ultraviolet light, there is evidence of some very minor restoration to this isolated area. Framed.
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