Lot 98
  • 98

Eanger Irving Couse

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Eanger Irving Couse
  • Mending the War Bonnet
  • signed ©/E.I. Couse (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 36 inches
  • (76.2 by 91.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1910.

Provenance

Private collection (acquired from the artist; sold: Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, February 24, 1938, lot 59, illustrated)
Sunwest Bank (now Bank of America), Raton, New Mexico

Exhibited

New York, Folsom Galleries; St. Louis, Missouri; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; Syracuse, New York; Toronto, Canada; 1910
New York, National Academy of Design, 87th Annual Exhibition, March-April 1912, no. 33
Richmond, Indiana; Muncie, Indiana; Charleston, Indiana; Lafayette, Indiana; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bloomington, Indiana; Vincennes, Indiana; Richmond, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Anderson, Indiana; 4th Indiana Circuit, February-December 1912

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at the left edge. Under UV: there appear to be a few small areas of inpainting in the figure's thigh, above the figure's head and in the headdress lower center.
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