Lot 15
  • 15

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Park Landscape
  • signed Chas Burchfield and dated 1916 (lower right); dated May 1916 (verso)
  • watercolor over traces of pencil on paper
  • 12 by 9 inches
  • (30.5 by 22.9 cm)

Provenance

Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, Buffalo, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Braverman, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 88, p. 42

Condition

Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper, hinged at the upper edge by two pieces of white cloth tape. Work is in generally good condition aside from small losses at the upper corners and acid burn at extreme edges.
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