LILLA CABOT PERRY | Reading

Estate of the artist
[with]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1986 (acquired from the above)
Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 4, 1986, lot 175)
Private collection, Denver, Colorado (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection (by descent; sold: Christie's, New York, May 16, 2012, lot 30)
Acquired by the present owners at the above sale

Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, The Feminine Gaze: Women Depicted by Women, 1900-1930, September-October 1984, pp. 1, 15, illustrated 

The canvas is unlined and there is minor frame abrasion at edges. There is scattered surface cracking, primarily in the darker pigments and there is a patch on the reverse of the canvas in the upper left quadrant. Under UV: there is an L-shaped area of inpainting in the vertical brown band in left background that corresponds to the patch on reverse and a few other very thin vertical lines of inpainting in the background. Some other pigments fluoresce but appear to be the artist's original work.
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