THOMAS MORAN | From the Arabian Nights

Hammer Galleries, New York
Private collection (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, June 19, 1981, lot 94)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

The canvas is lined and the tacking edges are covered with tape. There is fine surface cracking throughout. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion, a few thin lines of inpainting to address cracking in the sky, three spots of inpainting at center and a few scattered dots in the water.
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This work will be included in Stephen L. Good's and Phyllis Braff's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.