Lot 122
  • 122

Oscar Bluemner 1867-1938

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Oscar Bluemner
  • Red Night. Thoughts
  • signed with the artist's monogrammed signature OBluemner, l.r.; also signed Oscar Bluemner and inscribed APG 1696/ 102 Plains St./ S Braintree Mass/ Oil varnish painting 8 x 10/ 1929 Catalogue #3 Red Night. Thoughts on the reverse
  • oil on board mounted on panel
  • 8 by 10 in.
  • (20.3 by 25.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1929.

Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1978 

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, December 1988-September 1989 

Literature

Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner, New York, 1991, p. 137, illustrated p. 139

Condition

Good condition, some visible craquelure; under UV: fine lines of inpainting to address craquelure.
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