Lot 128
  • 128

GEORGE INNESS | Autumn Sunset

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • George Inness
  • Autumn Sunset
  • signed G. Inness and dated 18[78] (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 12 1/8 by 17 3/4 inches
  • (30.8 by 45.1 cm)
  • Painted circa 1868-69.

Provenance

The McCormick Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 13, 1966, lot 57
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale) 
Private collection, Kansas, 1966
James Graham & Sons, New York, circa 1996
Mary Lou Swift Fine Arts, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1998

Exhibited

Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita Collects: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Wichita Centennial, 1969
Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita Collects, 1983
New York, The Century Association, Every Patron a Pericles: The Century Association and the Encouragement of American Art, January-February 1997, p. 15 (as Landscape

Literature

(possibly) Masters of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1908, vol. 9, p. 41
Leroy Ireland, Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Austin, Texas, 1965, no. 480, p. 117 
Michael Quick, George Inness:  A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, 1880-1894, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, vol. I, no. 318, p. 290, illustrated 

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion at edges and scattered dots and spots throughout.
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