Lot 66
  • 66

Walt Kuhn

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Walt Kuhn
  • Helen
  • signed and dated 1929; titled twice and dated 1929 on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 40 by 30 1/8 in. 101.6 by 76.5 cm.

Provenance

Maynard Walker Gallery, New York

Exhibited

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Paintings by Walt Kuhn, 1930, cat. no. 7

Literature

Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus 1978, cat. no. 240, pp. 128, 254 (text)

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There a few pindot sized paint losses and some very minor lifting in the figure's right thigh. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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