Lot 27
  • 27

Edgar Alwin Payne

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Canyon de Chelly
  • signed Edgar Payne (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 24 inches
  • (50.8 by 61 cm)

Provenance

Rosenstock Fine Arts, Denver, Colorado
Charles Tyler, Los Angeles, California 
Private collection, Santa Barbara, California
By descent to the present owner

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is craquelure primarily in the sky and clouds and a small loss above the rock at right. There is a stretcher bar mark along the top edge with a 1-inch horizontal crack in the upper center along this mark. Some slubs of the canvas are visible. Under UV: there is an area of inpainting in the rock at center left and a few other dots primarily along the left edge.
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