Lot 65
  • 65

Thomas Eakins

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Eakins
  • Untitled (Portrait of a Girl in Puff Sleeves)
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 20 in.
  • 61.0 by 50.8 cm.
  • Painted circa 1899.

Provenance

Susan Macdowell Eakins (the artist's wife), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1916
Babcock Galleries, New York, 1939
Milch Galleries, New York, 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn (acquired from the above), 1959
Gift from the above, 1966

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, May-September 1977, no. 81, illustrated p. 150

Literature

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, no. 272, p. 185
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, no. 105, illustrated p. 325

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: lining has compressed canvas surface, although retention of details and colors is good UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: 4 small spots of inpaint--one on her right temple; one on her earlobe; another above her ear (in her hair) and one in background near left edge, center
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