Lot 122
  • 122

Eastman Johnson

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Eastman Johnson
  • Studies of Children
  • signed with the artist's initials EJ (lower right)
  • charcoal and white chalk on paper
  • 8 3/4 by 13 3/4 inches
  • (22.2. by 34.9 cm)
  • Executed circa 1875-80.

Provenance

Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 11, 1961, lot 14)
Babcock Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1961

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Childs Gallery, n.d.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, 1985, no. 2, pp. 4-5, illustrated

Condition

Charcoal and white chalk on paper. This work has a 3 by 2 inche repair in the lower left corner and a repair to the upper edge (under the mat). There is light staining and the sheet has faded.
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