Lot 20
  • 20

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Power Lines and Snow
  • bears C.E. Burchfield Foundation stamp #B142 (lower right)
  • watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
  • 24 3/4 by 18 inches
  • (60.3 by 45.7 cm)
  • Executed circa 1916.

Provenance

Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, Buffalo, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private collection, St. Louis, Missouri
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Ken and Ava Kercheval, Los Angeles, California
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1980s

Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Charles E. Burchfield: The Early Years 1915-1929, October-November 1977, no. 7, illustrated
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Museum of Art, The Early Works of Charles E. Burchfield 1915-1921, December 1987-April 1988, no. 10

Literature

John I.H. Baur, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967, Newark, New Jersey, 1982, n.p., illustrated pl. VI

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at reverse of upper corners. The sheet appears slightly toned. There are a few pindots of possible foxing and scattered dots of staining. There is a minor crease at extreme lower right corner. There are remnants from a former mounting on the reverse.
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