Lot 241
  • 241

Everett Franklin Spruce 1908-2002

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Everett Franklin Spruce
  • The Lone Cabin
  • signed E. Spruce, l.r.; signed Everett Spruce, inscribed Negro Cabin and dated 1944 on the stretcher 
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 1/2 by 24 in.
  • 52 by 61 cm.

Provenance

Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York
Priestley Fine Art, Elon College, North Carolina
By descent to the present owners

Condition

Canvas not lined (a patch. about 3 in. high is on the reverse--corresponds to right edge, center) Vertical craquelure across the center of canvas; yellowed varnish. Under UV light: inpainting on the craquelure at center stretching from upper center to bottom center.
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