Lot 43
  • 43

Charles Burchfield 1893-1967

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Church North of East Otto
  • stamped with the C.E. Burchfield Foundation stamp and numbered B-112, l.r.

  • watercolor, charcoal and ink on paper laid on board
  • 22 3/4 by 33 in.
  • (57.8 by 83.8 cm)
  • Executed circa 1952.

Provenance

C.E. Burchfield Foundation, Buffalo, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Estate of Felicia Marsh
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 4, 1980, lot 202A, illustrated)
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1980

Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, C. E. Burchfield: Colors, 1976 
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Charles E. Burchfield Watercolors: Visual Music, October-November 1976, no. 24, illustrated in color

Literature

John Baur, The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967, East Brunswick, New Jersey, 1982, p.226, illustrated

Condition

Good condition, unframed: faint matburn along right and left edges, affixed to the mat on all four sides.
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